They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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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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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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There’s always one more way to do things and that’s your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.
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Nobody knows I’m Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I’ve got the perfect disguise.
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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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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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I might be an endangered species.
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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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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