I’m old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.
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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Nobody knows I’m Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I’ve got the perfect disguise.
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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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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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Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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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.
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And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn’t want us to be the ones.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
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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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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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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 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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Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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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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I’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.
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