I’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.
WAYLON JENNINGSDon’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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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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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn’t seem right. You let them come home, America.
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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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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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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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 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.
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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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And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn’t want us to be the ones.
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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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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.
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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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That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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