So I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
WAYLON JENNINGSIf you see me getting smaller, I’m leaving, don’t be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don’t worry, and no hurry, I’ve got the right to disappear.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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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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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England.
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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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When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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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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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
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Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.
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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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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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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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Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
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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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I don’t believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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I’m just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
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