We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain’t it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?
WAYLON JENNINGSDon’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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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I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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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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I could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.
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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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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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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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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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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I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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I might be an endangered species.
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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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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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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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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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