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.
WAYLON JENNINGSThe 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.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain’t it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?
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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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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I’ve drunker been. Or is it drunker than I’ve ever been?
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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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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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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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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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To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.
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Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
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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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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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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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