Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
WAYLON JENNINGSYou 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.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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And you’d sure better not be doing it because it’s a way to make a living, ’cause that ain’t always going to be easy. You got to believe it, believe in the music. You got to mean it.
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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.
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Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
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I don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I’m really about.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He’s the biggest. He’s like an Elvis in this business, but no, he’s never been the rebel.
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I ain’t got no reverse. I’ve learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.
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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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Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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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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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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