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.
WAYLON JENNINGSThis is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I’m really about.
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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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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 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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When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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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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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
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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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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I’ve drunker been. Or is it drunker than I’ve ever been?
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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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I’m old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.
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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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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
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Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
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