Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
WAYLON JENNINGSIf we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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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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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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I say, Lord, do right be me, I’m tired of being lonesome, on’ry, and mean.
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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I’ve drunker been. Or is it drunker than I’ve ever been?
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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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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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If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I’d save on shoes alone.
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I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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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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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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Mainly what I learned from Buddy… was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn’t have any barriers to it.
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