I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
WAYLON JENNINGSLadies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.
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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’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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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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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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He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what’s right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.
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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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I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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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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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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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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