Best Hillbilly Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Homelessness is not a race thing. It's not a gender thing. It's not a religious thing. It's not a gay or straight thing. It's not a political thing. It's not a thing, it's people.”

Abuse Rape Narcissist Appalachia Hillbilly Inbred

Book:God Saw You Kill My Two Little Friends!

Source: God Saw You Kill My Two Little Friends!

“Elegies are poems dedicated to the dead. The American hillbilly(assuming we can use that word for the white working class) isn't dead; she is just poor.”

Appalachia Elegy Hillbilly

Book:Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

Source: Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

“He seems to be giving his people a (mostly) gently worded lecture on their lack of willingness to work even when it appears almost pointless to do so. For that reason, the book should have been titled Hillbilly Reprimand, because Vance doesn't want to mourn his hillbilly family. He wants to make them good proletarians like they allegedly were in the twentieth century.”

Appalachia Hillbilly

Book:Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

Source: Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

“I keep hearing all these jokes on TV about how people in Arkansas are still barefoot hillbillies. Sure there are plenty of people living up in the hills and mountains on Arkansas. Why not? The scenery is breathtaking from their million-dollar houses up in those hills. Those people bought Wal-Mart stock early. They paid cash for those homes. -Little Rock resident on how some people from "up North" view Arkansas”

Arkansas Hillbilly The South

Book:New Times In The Old South: Or Why Scarlett's in Therapy & Tara's Going Condo

Source: New Times In The Old South: Or Why Scarlett's in Therapy & Tara's Going Condo

“Under the Roman Empire, barbarians were the rural trash of their day. The word "pagan" is derived from the Latin pagus, meaning "country", and Romans used it disparagingly to describe country dwellers. Likewise, "heathen" originally meant those rural types who lived under cover of the heath. Both "pagan" and "heathen" are thus ancient verbal ancestors of "hillbilly.”

Paganism Redneck Hillbilly

Author:Jim Goad

“I had a dream that I lost my teeth and when I woke up they were all still in my mouth, thank God that I am not a Hill Billy after all.”

God Humor Teeth Redneck Hillbilly

Book:Dreaming is for lovers

Source: Dreaming is for lovers

“If Arkansas is, indeed, one big family, Eureka Springs remains its eccentric uncle.”

Humor Hillbilly

Author:Rex Nelson

“I’m not a hillbilly. I’m more upscale. I’m a hillwilliam.”

Humor Absurd Hillbilly

Book:Whenever you're here, I'm there for you

Source: Whenever you're here, I'm there for you

“The Untheory of Evolution, and Other Scientific Studies Including Hunting, Fishing, and Sex" by William C. Berdine needs to be available to put in my favorite books list. This book is excellent for any young teen to stumble across and read. I found it while my parents were driving me to Florida for a vacation and as a preteen I fell in love immediately with the book and the person behind it.”

Comedy Humor Hillbilly

Author:William C. Berdine

“Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By.”

People Song Rocks Albums Rock And Roll Listening To Music Classical Music Hillbilly

Book:A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables

Source: A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables

“Love is the only thing that keeps me sane.”

Love Is Boxing Sane Adolescence Joints Hamburgers Famous Boxer Fighting On No Sleep Hillbilly Handball

Book:Townsend Plays: 1: Secret Diary of Adrian Mole; Womberang; Bazaar and Rummage; Groping for Words; Great Celestial Cow

Source: Townsend Plays: 1: Secret Diary of Adrian Mole; Womberang; Bazaar and Rummage; Groping for Words; Great Celestial Cow

“I'm a native West Virginian and I've been called everything from a hillbilly to a stump jumper. I'm always proud of it; I'm very proud to be a West Virginian.”

Proud West Native Stumps Jumpers Hillbilly Virginians

Author:John Raese

“Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways.”

Way Feels Made Numbers Optimistic Headings Countryside Hillbilly

Author:Jenny Holzer

“I believe that Willy Nelson is the hillbilly Dalai Lama.”

Believe I Believe Nelson Lama Dalai Hillbilly

Author:Kinky Friedman

“We spend so much money on these dresses that are terrible. And what do we get out of it? Nothing - a piece of chicken and a roll in the hay with her hillbilly cousin - no thank you. My family's very close; I can do that at home.”

I Can Home Can Do Pieces Terrible My Family Dresses Chickens Cousin Hay Hillbilly

Author:Chelsea Handler

“In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.”

Knows World Firsts Young Artist Black White Broke Rays Bob Dylan Channeling Keith English Speaking Hillbilly Black Music

Author:Iggy Pop

“It's been years since any hillbilly has reported getting sodomized by an alien. Did they break up and not tell us?”

Years Break Aliens Hillbilly

Author:Dana Gould

“In New York, I was excited about the music in New York because the only music that I was more or less involved with in the South was either country and western or hillbilly music as we used to call it when I was a kid and, ah, gospel. There was no, there was no in between. And when I got to New York all the other musics that's in the world just came into my head whether it was the classics, jazz, I never knew what jazz was about all, had heard anything about jazz.”

World Country Kids Used Heard New York Involved Jazz South Western Excited Hillbilly

Author:Ben E. King

“Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"”

Country Stuff Black Audience Lays Curiosity Our Country Whispering Provoked Hillbilly

Author:Chuck Berry

“Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies of those kind of hillbilly hymns - I used to refer to them - because they were not Southern gospel as much as they were passed down from Scottish Welsh Protestant hymnals.”

Thinking Kind Used Song Church Degrees Evolve Melody Southern Protestants Scottish Hymns Welsh Hillbilly

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“I was always drawn to the roots music, bluegrass, blues, early rock - Sun Records, Elvis [Presley]. And I still love that music to this day. Memphis never gets the credit. It's much more musically rich than Nashville ever will be. Nashville manufactured that hokey-hillbilly image way back.”

Way Stills Sun Rich Records Rocks Roots Credit This Day Nashville Memphis Bluegrass Hillbilly

Author:Steve Young

“I was kind of a little redneck growing up, living on a farm, and running around in the country. I developed hillbilly tendencies, but I wanted to listen to something a little more meaningful than "Redneck Woman" or whatever.”

Kind Country Running Growing Up Meaningful Redneck Hillbilly

Author:Lydia Loveless

“I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.”

Language Singers Hillbilly

Author:Loretta Lynn

“Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.”

West Deep Down Virginia West Virginia Hillbilly

Author:Brad Paisley

“I'm no hillbilly singer.”

Singers Hillbilly

Author:Elvis Presley

“Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.”

Way Remember One Thing Advice Smart Folks Gambling Good Advice Hillbilly

Book:Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

“People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.”

People Looks Littles Perfect Boxes Insult Categories Redneck Hillbilly Funny Redneck

Author:Travis Tritt

“Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.”

States Georgia Tennessee Hillbilly

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish - a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow - to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested... Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll.”

“Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.”

States Facts Girl Sound Building Decided Prison Employee Tall Aggressive Bully Naive Bricks Ruthless Kansas Barefoot Mae Hillbilly

Author:David Sedaris

“For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source”

Country Music Source Jazz Chicago Swings Stem Hillbilly Tonks Chicago Blues

Author:Duke Robillard

“It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock.”

Littles Rocks Beats Gun Guitar Rhythm Clock Little Things Steady Hillbilly

Author:Marty Stuart

“Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.”

Firsts Heaven Hopefully Mexican Mexican American Hillbilly

Author:Freddy Fender

“Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.”

Inspired Hillbilly

Author:Loretta Lynn

“We all got a hillbilly bone down deep inside.”

Bones Deep Inside Hillbilly

Author:Blake Shelton

“My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.”

Music Is Guitar Hanging On Cadillacs Hillbilly

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.”

“I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.”

Feels Persons Made Waiting Mistake Alive Talent Like You Phones Horrible Hello Phone Calls Always Waiting Hillbilly Just Realized Horrible Mistakes

Author:Lance Burton

“Last night I dreamed I went to hillbilly heaven and you know who greeted me at the gate? The ole cowboy-philosopher himself, Will Rogers.”

Knows Lasts Death Night Heaven Philosopher Gates Cowboy Last Night Roger Hillbilly

Author:Tex Ritter

“Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee.”

Rocks Tennessee Hillbilly

Author:Marty Stuart

“There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.”

People Want Hair Pool Genes Vague Misconception Resemblance Hillbilly Resemblance Is

Author:Chris Isaak