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 JENNINGSFinally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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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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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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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 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 only two things in life that make it worth livin’ / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women
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Lately I’ve heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I’ve been idle, don’t mean that I’m tame.
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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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Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.
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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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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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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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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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