Now, I don’t know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
WAYLON JENNINGSWhat I did. I’ve listened to it, and I think it was more a west coast rock thing, you know? But it fit. It was country, but it was my own interpretation of country.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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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.
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I can’t walk, so I can’t go home. No need to talk, cause I’m all alone. If I stay here they’re gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
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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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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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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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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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I’m just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
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I say, Lord, do right be me, I’m tired of being lonesome, on’ry, and mean.
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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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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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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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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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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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What I did. I’ve listened to it, and I think it was more a west coast rock thing, you know? But it fit. It was country, but it was my own interpretation of country.
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