Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
WAYLON JENNINGSI say, Lord, do right be me, I’m tired of being lonesome, on’ry, and mean.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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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 could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.
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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 was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn’t know how, but somehow I’d caused it.
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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Lately I’ve heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I’ve been idle, don’t mean that I’m tame.
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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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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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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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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So I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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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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