The men who could not fight, in a war that didn’t seem right. You let them come home, America.
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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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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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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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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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’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.
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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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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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The only two things in life that make it worth livin’ / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women
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There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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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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I might be an endangered species.
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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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That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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