This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
WAYLON JENNINGSWhen I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
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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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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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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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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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You’ve got to care about the music…You’d better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money.
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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I’ve drunker been. Or is it drunker than I’ve ever been?
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I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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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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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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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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Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.
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And yet his greatest desire was the simple warmth of love’s fire, cause it’s cold on the dark side of fame.
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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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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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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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I might be an endangered species.
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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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This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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