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.
WAYLON JENNINGSThe 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.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
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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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Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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I’m old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.
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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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The only two things in life that make it worth livin’ / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women
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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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There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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I don’t believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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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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There’s always one more way to do things and that’s your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.
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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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