Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
WAYLON JENNINGSI 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.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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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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Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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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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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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I say, Lord, do right be me, I’m tired of being lonesome, on’ry, and mean.
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what’s right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.
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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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I might be an endangered species.
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When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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What I did. I’ve listened to it, and I think it was more a west coast rock thing, you know? But it fit. It was country, but it was my own interpretation of country.
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