When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
WAYLON JENNINGSWhat bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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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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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn’t seem right. You let them come home, America.
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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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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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The only two things in life that make it worth livin’ / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women
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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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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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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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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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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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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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