I say, Lord, do right be me, I’m tired of being lonesome, on’ry, and mean.
WAYLON JENNINGSI didn’t aim at anything except good music.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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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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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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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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Lately I’ve heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I’ve been idle, don’t mean that I’m tame.
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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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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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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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I’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.
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One thing is that I wasn’t getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold.
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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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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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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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