Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
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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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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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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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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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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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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We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain’t it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?
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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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You 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.
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It was all devastating. I’d never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn’t know where to put it in my life.
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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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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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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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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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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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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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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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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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So I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I’ve drunker been. Or is it drunker than I’ve ever been?
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