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.
WAYLON JENNINGSI was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn’t know how, but somehow I’d caused it.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain’t it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?
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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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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’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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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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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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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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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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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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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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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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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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There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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