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.
WAYLON JENNINGSI was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
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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I’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.
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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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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England.
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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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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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One thing is that I wasn’t getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold.
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Mainly what I learned from Buddy… was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn’t have any barriers to it.
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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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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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Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
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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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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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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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There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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