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.
WAYLON JENNINGSHeaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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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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Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
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The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.
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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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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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I’m old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.
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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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I’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.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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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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Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
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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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You’ve got to care about the music…You’d better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money.
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The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn’t happen until I did. It wasn’t a real country sound.
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