You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
WAYLON JENNINGSWhen you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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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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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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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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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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Now, I don’t know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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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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The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.
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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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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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