You’ve got to care about the music…You’d better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money.
WAYLON JENNINGSIs your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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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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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn’t seem right. You let them come home, America.
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What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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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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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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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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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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If you see me getting smaller, I’m leaving, don’t be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don’t worry, and no hurry, I’ve got the right to disappear.
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