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.
WAYLON JENNINGSOne 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.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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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 could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.
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Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
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Country music isn’t a guitar, it isn’t a banjo, it isn’t a melody, it isn’t a lyric. It’s a feeling.
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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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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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So I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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Nobody knows I’m Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I’ve got the perfect disguise.
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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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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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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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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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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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