Jerry Reed Quotes (21 Quotes)

We want Old Town Square to be a focal point for fun in Bandera, a place where locals can hold their special events and meetings, or just visit us for a relaxing dinner with friends on the patio. Likewise, tourists can use Old Town Square as a home base during their visit to Bandera. They can stay overnight and dine with us, but also explore all that Bandera has to offer, ... This was the place to come to. We want to make it that kind of place again.

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

Young parents are working and busy raising their kids. Frankly, I'd like to see us focus more on the empty nesters and the baby boomers (in their 50s and early 60s).

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!

Celebrities like John Wayne and Willie Nelson used to stay here, so we took that idea and ran with it. Our visitors really like staying in rooms with a unique ambience rather than the bland cookie-cutter chain hotel rooms we've all seen before. We replaced just about everything except the walls to give the rooms a whole new look and feel.

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it.

When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.

Times like this you think, 'Well, we can't help 100,000 people or over a million,' but if you can take one truckload and knowing it's going directly into the hands of those that are needing it now,

Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.

Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

You will have fewer people, but our hotel only has 20 rooms we were booked weeks in advance. You have to spread it out for economic reasons and to support and build the community. As it is, we have a lot of wasted effort and dollars that can't be spent because the capacity isn't there.

She knew everyone in town and everything that was going on. And she was probably the best proof reader I ever saw in my life. She could spot a comma out of place, a period out of place or a misspelled word. She was just phenomenal.

Times like this, even though tragic and devastating, bond us together as neighbors.

He's able to talk to anybody, whether it's a grass roots advocate, a member of Congress or of the (Bush) administration, ... And he not only talks but he acts.

It is not a character fault or weakness or seeking attention. It is somebody who is ill.

Merchants and restaurants can't serve all of the people properly. If you have a quart jar and give me a gallon of juice, I'm going to sell a quart...you cannot give proper service when inundated with too many people at once.

I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed!

The Purple Cow had a barber shop. There's just a ton of history here. It's kind of reliving itself again.

I'd sit on the trunk in the kitchen - I'd get up there 'cause I wanted to be on stage, you know. I always wanted to be an entertainer.