We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England.
WAYLON JENNINGSAnd 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.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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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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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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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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Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.
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I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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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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What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
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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.
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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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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 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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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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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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