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.
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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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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Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
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I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn’t know how, but somehow I’d caused it.
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Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.
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I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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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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So I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I’m really about.
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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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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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Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
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I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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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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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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