Ray Wylie Hubbard Professions : Singer-songwriter Born : November 13, 1946 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by Ray Wylie Hubbard The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days. Ray Wylie Hubbard good-day gratitude expectations Buddha was not a Christian, but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist. Ray Wylie Hubbard buddhist christian jesus It's not any more unusual to be born twice than it is to be born once. Ray Wylie Hubbard unusual born I went to high school right outside Dallas, and (songwriter and performer) Michael Martin Murphey was a senior there when I was a sophomore or junior, really into folk and acoustic music. Larry Gross, who's the host of "Mountain Stage" on public radio, and B.W. Stevenson, also a musician, were there at the same time, too. Michael was a big inspiration -- through him I discovered Woody Guthrie, Dylan, Jimmy Rogers. Then I ran into Jerry Jeff Walker there in Dallas back when he was just a folk singer. Those are my earliest influences. Ray Wylie Hubbard senior inspiration school I started out as a folk singer, and kinda got sidetracked playin' honky tonks and such, but I was always a working musician. I didn't want to be Townes Van Zandt or Guy Clark, but I wanted to play in front of their audiences, you know what I mean? Ray Wylie Hubbard guy play mean I believe I'll take off my colors for awhile / And just kick back and sing some blues. Ray Wylie Hubbard i-believe color believe Before I went on stage at Kyle Hutton's Real Life Real Music Festival, I heard one of his songwriting students, Abbey Hirvela, sing; she was in the poet's saddle and riding that horse like she owned it. She was good! I probably ruined her by showing her how to make an E chord without the 3rd though. Ray Wylie Hubbard riding horse real Similar Authors Bill Anderson singer-songwriter Bill Kaulitz singer-songwriter Bob Whitlock singer-songwriter Bob Weir singer-songwriter Brent Smith singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie singer-songwriter All Authors