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.
WAYLON JENNINGSHighway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
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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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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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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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I say, Lord, do right be me, I’m tired of being lonesome, on’ry, and mean.
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This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
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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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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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There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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I can’t walk, so I can’t go home. No need to talk, cause I’m all alone. If I stay here they’re gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
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I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn’t know how, but somehow I’d caused it.
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I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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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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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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