But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
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The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.
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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn’t know how, but somehow I’d caused it.
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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.
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I’m a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that’s the way I feel about people who “play on sessions.
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What I did. I’ve listened to it, and I think it was more a west coast rock thing, you know? But it fit. It was country, but it was my own interpretation of country.
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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England.
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The only two things in life that make it worth livin’ / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women
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Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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One night of love don’t make up for six nights alone. But I’d rather have one than none Lord, cause I’m flesh and bone.
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Nobody knows I’m Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I’ve got the perfect disguise.
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There’s always one more way to do things and that’s your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.
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Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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If you see me getting smaller, I’m leaving, don’t be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don’t worry, and no hurry, I’ve got the right to disappear.
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The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.
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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
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Now, I don’t know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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Mainly what I learned from Buddy… was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn’t have any barriers to it.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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