When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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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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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Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
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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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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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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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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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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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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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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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You’ve got to care about the music…You’d better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money.
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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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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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When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.
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To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.
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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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