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.
WAYLON JENNINGSHonesty is something you can’t wear out.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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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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I might be an endangered species.
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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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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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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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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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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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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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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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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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