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 JENNINGSNow, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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There’s always one more way to do things and that’s your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.
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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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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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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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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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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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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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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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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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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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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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I might be an endangered species.
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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn’t seem right. You let them come home, America.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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