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.
WAYLON JENNINGSWas an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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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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Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
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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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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England.
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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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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what’s right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.
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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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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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One thing is that I wasn’t getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold.
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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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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn’t seem right. You let them come home, America.
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