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.
WAYLON JENNINGSHighway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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Nobody knows I’m Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I’ve got the perfect disguise.
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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He’s the biggest. He’s like an Elvis in this business, but no, he’s never been the rebel.
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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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If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I’d save on shoes alone.
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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn’t seem right. You let them come home, America.
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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.
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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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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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I could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.
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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 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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And 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.
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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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