Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
WAYLON JENNINGSTake your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He’s the biggest. He’s like an Elvis in this business, but no, he’s never been the rebel.
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Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn’t seem right. You let them come home, America.
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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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I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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I 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.
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So I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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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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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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It was all devastating. I’d never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn’t know where to put it in my life.
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I’m old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.
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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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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
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I could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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If 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.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
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The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn’t happen until I did. It wasn’t a real country sound.
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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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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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I can’t walk, so I can’t go home. No need to talk, cause I’m all alone. If I stay here they’re gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
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Country music isn’t a guitar, it isn’t a banjo, it isn’t a melody, it isn’t a lyric. It’s a feeling.
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