Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
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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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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I might be an endangered species.
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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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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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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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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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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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Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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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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I don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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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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