Bud Hamilton Quotes in Nashville (1975)

Opal: Good Lord love a duck!

Bud Hamilton: This is a choir... a black choir... from, uh, part of... from Fisk University here in town.

Opal: Good Lord! The lady singing is... is she a missionary?

Bud Hamilton: No, she's not. She's a gospel singer. She's the wife of our attorney.

Opal: I was making a documentary in Kenya... and there was this marvelous woman who was a missionary. That's why I asked if she was a missionary. She was sensational. She was converting Kukuyos by the dozens. She was trying to convert Masais. Of course, they were hopeless. They have their own sort of religion. Look at that. That rhythm is fantastic. It's funny... You can tell it's come down in the genes... through ages and ages and hundreds of years, but it's there. I mean, take off those robes and one is in... in... in darkest Africa. I can just see their naked, frenzied bodies... dancing to the beat of... Do they carry on like that in church?

Bud Hamilton: Depends on which church you go to.