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.
WAYLON JENNINGSI could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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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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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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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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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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I could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.
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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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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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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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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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Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
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The only two things in life that make it worth livin’ / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women
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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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When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.
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One night of love don’t make up for six nights alone. But I’d rather have one than none Lord, cause I’m flesh and bone.
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