Top 24 Quotes by Mel Tillis

I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

Or in the early days we didn't have the bus, we had a station wagon.

You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.

I remember li'l ol' Hank Jr. - he was just a baby back in them days, you know - but he used to hang around. His mama would bring him around. He was just a natural.

But now I've been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days.

Well, no, you can prepare it all you want, but I'd still stutter.

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.

I'm not retiring.

I'm gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I'll be there for two weeks. And I'll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates.