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.
WAYLON JENNINGSI don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
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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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And yet his greatest desire was the simple warmth of love’s fire, cause it’s cold on the dark side of fame.
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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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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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I ain’t got no reverse. I’ve learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.
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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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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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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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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’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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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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