I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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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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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His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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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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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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If you see me getting smaller, I’m leaving, don’t be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don’t worry, and no hurry, I’ve got the right to disappear.
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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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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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I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
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I’m old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.
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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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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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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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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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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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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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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I’ve drunker been. Or is it drunker than I’ve ever been?
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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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It was all devastating. I’d never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn’t know where to put it in my life.
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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn’t seem right. You let them come home, America.
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