His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
WAYLON JENNINGSEach tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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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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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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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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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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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 sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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 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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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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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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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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