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.
WAYLON JENNINGSI’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.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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I don’t believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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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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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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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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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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Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
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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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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 sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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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 don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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