Jerry Reed Quotes

10 quotations by Jerry Reed

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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!

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