I could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.
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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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 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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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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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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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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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I’ve drunker been. Or is it drunker than I’ve ever been?
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That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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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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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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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
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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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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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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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