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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More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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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 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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To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.
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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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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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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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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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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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This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
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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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The only two things in life that make it worth livin’ / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women
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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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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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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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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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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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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.
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It was all devastating. I’d never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn’t know where to put it in my life.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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