Buck Owens American Musician Quotations

We were sharecroppers - we were a little bit of everything. We farmed and tried to make something.

We used to get one room and we'd park the vehicle outside, everybody would all take showers and we'd steal towels because we knew we wasn't gonna have enough towels for all five of us to shower.

The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.

And I said, 'Why not? It's the truth! Why can't I say I'm a Beatles fan?' I used to get criticized for that.

You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.