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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More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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I don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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I might be an endangered species.
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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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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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There’s always one more way to do things and that’s your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.
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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’m just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
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Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.
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This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
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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 never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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I’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.
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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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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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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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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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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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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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I ain’t got no reverse. I’ve learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.
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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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When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.
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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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