Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
WAYLON JENNINGSI sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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I might be an endangered species.
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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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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 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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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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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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I could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.
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Lately I’ve heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I’ve been idle, don’t mean that I’m tame.
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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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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn’t happen until I did. It wasn’t a real country sound.
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I can’t walk, so I can’t go home. No need to talk, cause I’m all alone. If I stay here they’re gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
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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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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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