Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees
- Gene Autry (1907–1998)
- Bill Monroe (1911–1996)
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Famous quotes containing the words country, music, hall and/or fame:
“Who can live in heart so glad
As the merry country lad?”
—Nicholas Breton (1542–1626)
“But the dark changed to red, and torches shone,
And deafening music shook the leaves; a troop
Shouldered a litter with a wounded man,
Or smote upon the string and to the sound
Sang of the beast that gave the fatal wound.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill
of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)
“People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature—and it won’t hurt your feelings—like it’s happening to your clothing.”
—Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962)