To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.
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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Country music isn’t a guitar, it isn’t a banjo, it isn’t a melody, it isn’t a lyric. It’s a feeling.
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His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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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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Now, I don’t know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.
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Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.
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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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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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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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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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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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