Lately I’ve heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I’ve been idle, don’t mean that I’m tame.
WAYLON JENNINGSI 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.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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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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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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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’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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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I’ve drunker been. Or is it drunker than I’ve ever been?
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This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
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Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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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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I say, Lord, do right be me, I’m tired of being lonesome, on’ry, and mean.
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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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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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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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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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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 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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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
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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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If you see me getting smaller, I’m leaving, don’t be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don’t worry, and no hurry, I’ve got the right to disappear.
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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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I might be an endangered species.
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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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What I did. I’ve listened to it, and I think it was more a west coast rock thing, you know? But it fit. It was country, but it was my own interpretation of country.
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