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.
WAYLON JENNINGSI might be an endangered species.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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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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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.
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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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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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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 could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.
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That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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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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Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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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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Mainly what I learned from Buddy… was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn’t have any barriers to it.
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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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