Hank Williams was an American singer-songwriter and musician regarded as one of the most important country music artists of all time. Even today, his songs continue to resonate with many because his song lyrics were sweet to listen to and had poetic expressions. In this blog post, we have compiled the best Hank Williams quotes that contain the best lines from his songs. These quotes will be sure to educate, entertain, and help you pass the message of love to your significant other.
Hank Williams Quotes
- “I wandered so aimlessly; life was filled with sin; I wouldn’t let my dear Savior in; then Jesus came like a stranger in the night; then I saw the light.”
- Just like a blind man, I wandered along with worries and fears I claimed for my own, and then, like the blind man to whom God gave back his sight, I saw the light.
- “If the wife and I are fussing, brother, that’s our right because me and that sweet woman’ve got a license to fight. Why don’t you mind your own business?”
- If I want to honky tonk around until two or three, now, brother, that’s my headache. Don’t you worry about me. Just mind your own business.
- “For many years I’ve been looking for a place to call home, but I’ve yet to find it, so I must travel on. I don’t care for fine mansions on earth’s sinking sand. Lord, build me a cabin in the corner of Glory Land.”
- Blessed Lord, I’m not asking to live in the midst, for I know I’m not worthy of such splendor as this, but I’m asking for mercy while I humbly stand. Build me a cabin in the corner of glory land.
Hank Williams Quotes and messages about love
- “If you love somebody new, let me find a new love too.”
- Give my heart just a word of sympathy; be as fair to my heart as you can be.
- “The silence of a falling star lights up a purple sky, and as I wonder where you are, I feel so lonely.”
- We met in the springtime, when blossoms unfolded, the pastures were green, and the meadows were gold. Our love was in bloom as summer grew on.
- “Her love, like the leaves, has withered and gone; the roses have faded; there’s frost at my door; the birds in the morning don’t sing anymore; the grass in the valley is starting to die; and out in the darkness, the whippoorwills cry.”
- I tried so hard, my dear, to show that you’re my every dream. Yet you’re afraid each thing I do is just some evil scheme. A memory from your lonesome past keeps us so far apart; why can’t I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold heart?
- “There was a time when I believed that you belonged to me, but now I know your heart is shackled to a memory.”
- The more I learn to care for you, the more we drift apart. Why can’t I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold heart?
- “Then, if you no longer care for the love being there, take these chains from my heart and set me free.”
- You’ve grown cold and no longer care for me; all my faith in you is gone, but the heartaches linger on.
- “I’ve waited all through the years to give you a heart that’s true and real, because I know you’re living in sorrow.”
- It’s hard to know another’s lips will kiss you and hold you just the way I used to do. Oh, heaven only knows how much I miss you. I can’t help it if I’m still in love with you.
- “I have a little girl that wears her hair up high; the boys all whistle when she walks by. Why don’t they mind their own business?”
Hank Williams Quotes About Life
- “How I wish that today all the people would pray as we prayed in that old country church. If they’d only confess, Jesus surely would bless as He did in the old country church I used to go to.”
- If Jesus should come and knock on your door to come in and buy bread from your store, would you welcome him in or turn him away? And then God would deny you on the great judgment day.
- “Your cheating heart will make you weep; you’ll cry and try to sleep, but sleep won’t come the whole night through.”
- Your cheating heart will pine someday and crave the love you threw away; the time will come when you’ll be blue.
- “Minding other people’s business seems high-toned; I’ve got all that I can do just to mind my own.”
- If you mind your own business, then you won’t mind mine.
- “Oh, you can read your magazines of love and tragic things, but not one word of a Bible verse, not a scripture, do you know? When it is the very truth and its contents are good for you, but its dust is covered over it, it’s sure to doom your poor soul.”
- If you have a friend you’d like to help along life’s way, just tell him that the Good Book shows a mortal how to pray.
- “This heart of mine could never see what everybody knew but me: just trusting you was my great sin.”
- Why don’t you spark me like you used to and say sweet nothings like you used to?
- “A tongue can accuse and carry bad news; the seeds of distrust it will sow.”
- Unless you’ve made no mistakes in your life, be careful of the stones that you throw.
- “When you are sad and lonely and have no place to go, come to see me, baby, and bring along some dough, and we’ll go honky tonking.”
Hank Williams Captions
- A man needs a woman he can lean on.
- “No matter how I struggle and strive, I’ll never get out of this world alive.”
- If you mind your own business, you’ll stay busy all the time.
- “I was a fool to wander and stray, for straight is the gate and narrow is the way.”
I hope you enjoyed reading the above Hank Williams quotes.