What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
WAYLON JENNINGSWhat bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
WAYLON JENNINGSAnd you’d sure better not be doing it because it’s a way to make a living, ’cause that ain’t always going to be easy. You got to believe it, believe in the music. You got to mean it.
WAYLON JENNINGSLately I’ve heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I’ve been idle, don’t mean that I’m tame.
WAYLON JENNINGSWas an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
WAYLON JENNINGSSo I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
WAYLON JENNINGSThe 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.
WAYLON JENNINGSMainly what I learned from Buddy… was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn’t have any barriers to it.
WAYLON JENNINGSIf I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I’d save on shoes alone.
WAYLON JENNINGSThe villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
WAYLON JENNINGSI like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I’m really about.
WAYLON JENNINGSIf you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
WAYLON JENNINGSI mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
WAYLON JENNINGSYou know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
WAYLON JENNINGSMen commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
WAYLON JENNINGSHis looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
WAYLON JENNINGSI may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
WAYLON JENNINGS