I’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.
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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Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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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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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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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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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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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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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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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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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Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
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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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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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You’ve got to care about the music…You’d better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money.
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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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