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.
WAYLON JENNINGSLately I’ve heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I’ve been idle, don’t mean that I’m tame.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
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He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what’s right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.
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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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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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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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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
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There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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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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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
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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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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 was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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