Buck Owens Quotes

You're three minutes away from being a really big star. If you find a great song, you're three minutes away from really getting on the right road and being successful. - Buck Owens

You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day. - Buck Owens

What a wonderful opportunity was presented to me to be able to make a living and pay my bills while I'm learning my trade. - Buck Owens

We were sharecroppers - we were a little bit of everything. We farmed and tried to make something. - Buck Owens

We used to get one room and we'd park the vehicle outside, everybody would all take showers and we'd steal towels because we knew we wasn't gonna have enough towels for all five of us to shower. - Buck Owens

This happens and suddenly everyone is fighting to get on a plane to get down there. - Buck Owens

The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy. - Buck Owens

The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that. - Buck Owens

That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life. - Buck Owens

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done. - Buck Owens

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