And 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 JENNINGSI’m old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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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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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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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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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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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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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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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
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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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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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You’ve got to care about the music…You’d better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money.
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I’m just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
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When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.
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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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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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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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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
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What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
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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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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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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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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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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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