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.
WAYLON JENNINGSListening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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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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Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
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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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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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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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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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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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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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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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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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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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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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