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I'm no hillbilly singer.
Elvis Presley / Singer
Hillbilly
Singer
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I make no apology about being a hillbilly.
Marty Stuart / Singer-Songwriter
Hillbilly
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Country hillbilly music I love. Always have.
Ry Cooder / Musician
Hillbilly
Love Always
Love Music Country
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We all got a hillbilly bone down deep inside.
Blake Shelton / Singer
Bones
Deep Inside
Hillbilly
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Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.
Brad Paisley / Singer-Songwriter
Deep Down
Hillbilly
Virginia
West
West Virginia
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I believe that Willy Nelson is the hillbilly Dalai Lama.
Kinky Friedman / Singer
Believe
Hillbilly
Lama
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I haven't gone hillbilly rich, where you spend everything you have.
Jessie James Decker / Singer
Hillbilly
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Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.
Flannery O'connor / Writer
Georgia
Hillbilly
Tennessee
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Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.
Freddy Fender / Musician
Firsts
Heaven
Hillbilly
Hopefully
Mexican
Be The First
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Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.
Loretta Lynn / Singer-Songwriter
Hillbilly
Inspired
Finish
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You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
Hank Williams /
Hillbilly
Manure
Mule
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Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee.
Marty Stuart / Singer-Songwriter
Hillbilly
Rocks
Tennessee
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I have noticed that these pop bands will play our hillbilly songs when they cain't eat any other way!
Hank Williams /
Hillbilly
Any Other Way
Noticed
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I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.
Loretta Lynn / Singer-Songwriter
Hillbilly
Language
Singers
Dolly Parton
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When I started out, I was what they called corny. After a week in Nashville they were calling me hillbilly.
Vera Lynn /
Corny
Hillbilly
Nashville
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To sing like a hillbilly, you had to have lived like a hillbilly. You had to have smelt a lot of mule manure.
Hank Williams /
Hillbilly
Manure
Mule
Sing
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It's been years since any hillbilly has reported getting sodomized by an alien. Did they break up and not tell us?
Dana Gould / Comedian
Aliens
Hillbilly
Years
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When I first started, I had a mullet, and I was trying to play a hillbilly persona. While it was fun, it wasn't me.
Matt Riddle /
Hillbilly
Persona
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The four things a hillbilly singer needs are a Cadillac, a Nudie suit, the right hairdo, and a pair of pointy-toed boots.
Marty Stuart / Singer-Songwriter
Boots
Hillbilly
Cadillac
Hairdo
Pair
Suit
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Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways.
Jenny Holzer / Artist
Optimistic
Hillbilly
Numbers
Way
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I'm a bit of a loner, you know? I'm more quiet by nature. And coming from, you know, hillbilly country, I'm probably more reserved.
Brad Pitt / Actor
Hillbilly
Loner
Quiet
Reserved
Bit
Coming
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It doesn't bother me to be called a 'hillbilly' because I lived in the hills. I grew up in the hills and the mountains are my home.
Paula Jean Swearengin /
Bother
Hillbilly
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I'd lived in West Virginia on and off for four to five years growing up. I'm familiar with Bible Belt, with Appalachia, 'Hillbilly Elegy.'
Antoni Porowski /
Familiar
Hillbilly
Virginia
West Virginia
Belt
On And Off
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You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church.
Chris Hillman / Musician
Choir
Church
Hillbilly
Orthodox
Sing
Sundays
Tenor
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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.
Hunter S. Thompson / Journalist
Advice
Folks
Gambling
Good Advice
Hillbilly
One Thing
Remember
Smart
Talk
Good Always I Am
Quite
Bet
Good I Am Smart
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Hillbilly stereotypes have always made it easier for middle-class whites to presume that racism is the exclusive province of 'that kind' of person.
Michelle Dean /
Exclusive
Hillbilly
Racism
Presume
Province
Stereotypes
Whites
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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.
John Raese / Politician
Hillbilly
Native
Proud
West
Stump
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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.
Travis Tritt / Singer
Hillbilly
People
Perfect
Redneck
Category
Box
Call
Insults
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If you take the riff from the song 'Cowboys From Hell' and really break it down, it's almost a hillbilly guitar riff: dekka dekka dekka dekka dekka dekka dekka dek.
Vinnie Paul / Drummer
Hillbilly
Cowboys
Riff
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis' by JD Vance made me entirely rethink U.S. republicanism, Donald Trump and the American white working class.
David Lammy / British Politician
Hillbilly
Memoir
Republicanism
Family Culture Me
Donald Trump
Entirely
Rethink
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Hillbilly Rock' was the song that opened the door and gave me a reason to get a bus and a band and cowboy clothes to go out there and figure it out in front of everybody. And the hits started coming.
Marty Stuart / Singer-Songwriter
Cowboy
Hillbilly
Opened
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My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
J. D. Vance /
Grandma
Hillbilly
Calls
Nose
Punch
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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.'
Lance Burton / Magician
Alive
Hello
Hillbilly
Horrible
Made
Mistake
Waiting
Person
Feel
Now
Call
Phone
Leave
Luckiest
Phone Call
Realized
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I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose that. I think it's possible to maintain a big chunk of that identity so long as you're self-reflective and meaningful about it.
J. D. Vance /
Hillbilly
Meaningful
Attitudes
Chunk
Believe I Believe Long
Maintain
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Let's call a spade a spade: when people look at me, they say, 'Oh, she's the androgynous one.' I'll tell you what type of character I would never be offered out there: The femme fatale. Or the white-trash, heterosexual hillbilly.
Katherine Moennig / Actress
Androgynous
Femme
Femme Fatale
Hillbilly
Character Me Look
Character Look Me
Heterosexual
Offered
Spade
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If I'm opening up for George Jones or playing a complete honky-tonk, I do true country music. But if it's a complete rock club, I'll do some country and a little bit of this hillbilly acoustic country metal or whatever it's called.
Hank Williams Iii / Musician
Hillbilly
Opening
Acoustic
Country Music
Metal
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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'.
Chris Isaak / Musician
Hair
Hillbilly
Misconception
People
Pool
Resemblance
Resemblance Is
Me People Hair
Elvis
Gene
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The music played most around St. Louis was country-western and swing. Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of the country stuff on our predominantly black audience. After they laughed at me a few times, they began requesting the hillbilly stuff.
Chuck Berry / Guitarist
Audience
Black
Curiosity
Hillbilly
Laughed
Provoked
Stuff
Louis
Music Me Curiosity
Played
Began
Few
Music Black Me
St. Louis
Swing
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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.
Iggy Pop / Singer
Artist
Black
Black Music
Broke
Dylan
English Speaking
Hillbilly
White
Young
Artists
Bob Dylan
Money Music Great
Ray
Richards
Successfully
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I'm a simple hillbilly. I don't like eating modern, industrialized, fast food. I grew up eating home-cooked food. So when I'm traveling abroad, like when I recently received a six-month writing fellowship to Iowa in the U.S., I like to cook my own food.
Andrea Hirata / Author
Fast Food
Fellowship
Hillbilly
Iowa
Abroad
Cook
Industrialized
Received
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I don't know that my voice ever makes sense anywhere, necessarily. I would sing bluegrass music, and I don't fit in there; I would sing rock music, and I'm probably a little too hillbilly for that. And country, I'm too much rock n' roll for there sometimes.
Chris Stapleton / Musician
Bluegrass
Hillbilly
Rock Music
Too Much
Voice
Anywhere
Necessarily
Rock
Sing
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My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbilly music part of it, and all that music came over from Scotland and Ireland and England in to the Appalachian Mountains and Ozark Mountains, where I was raised.
Charlie Haden / Musician
Hillbilly
Ireland
Scotland
Family Music Dad
Appalachian
Influenced
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I think of myself as a Hollywood hillbilly, but I'm sick of all these questions people ask about Alabama. 'Do you have an outhouse?' 'Is there a lot of inbreeding in your family?' They think all Southerners don't have computers and TV sets and that we're all still living in 1862.
Sunny Mabrey / Film Actress
Computers
Alabama
Hillbilly
Sick
Sets
Southerners
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Not long ago, every time I did a picture shoot for a magazine, the photographer would ask me to show up wearing jeans and cowboy boots. They seemed to think I was a hillbilly. Now it's different. Now they're not quite sure what to make of me. And I show up wearing whatever I want.
Troy Aikman / American Football Player
Boots
Cowboy
Hillbilly
Jeans
Photographer
Time Me Long
Time Long Me
Magazine
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When we first started recording, it was before rock, so people thought we were hillbilly hicks. That was something we had to deal with; the girls didn't think we were cool, although they did a few years later. We had ducktails and wore peg-leg pants. We looked like rock n' rollers.
Phil Everly /
Hillbilly
Pants
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Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn't mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music that's been created in America has been pretty much improvised... Whether it's hillbilly or rock n' roll for blues, it's basically jazz music... It's basically about another way of hearing what comes out of America.
Jaimoe /
Music
Truth
America
American Music
Another Way
Bebop
Hillbilly
Improvising
Jazz
Jazz Music
Matter
Pretty
Basically
Blues
Improvised
Rock
Whether
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My parents were on the Grand Ole Opry. They traveled all over the country singing hillbilly music. That's what they called it back then. They were friends with Roy Acuff and the Delmore Brothers and the Carter Family. And all of my brothers and sisters who were older than me started on the show, after they were big enough to hold a guitar and sing.
Charlie Haden / Musician
Brothers And Sisters
Carter
Hillbilly
Traveled
Big Enough
Sisters
Grand
Ole
Opry
Roy
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