I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
WAYLON JENNINGSI was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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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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I don’t believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins’ name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn’t have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.
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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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One thing is that I wasn’t getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold.
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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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And yet his greatest desire was the simple warmth of love’s fire, cause it’s cold on the dark side of fame.
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And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn’t want us to be the ones.
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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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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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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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