I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
WAYLON JENNINGSThis is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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If 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.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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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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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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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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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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I say, Lord, do right be me, I’m tired of being lonesome, on’ry, and mean.
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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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I’m just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
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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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I could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.
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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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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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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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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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