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 JENNINGSSo I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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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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Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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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 I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I’d save on shoes alone.
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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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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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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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The only two things in life that make it worth livin’ / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women
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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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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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Mainly what I learned from Buddy… was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn’t have any barriers to it.
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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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I ain’t got no reverse. I’ve learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.
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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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