Roy Acuff

“Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.”

“I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.”

“I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.”

“Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.”

“The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.”

“Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.”

“I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.”