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 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
-
-
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.
WAYLON JENNINGS -
Did ole Hank really do it this way?
WAYLON JENNINGS -
I could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.
WAYLON JENNINGS -
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.
WAYLON JENNINGS -
I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
WAYLON JENNINGS -
If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
WAYLON JENNINGS -
Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
WAYLON JENNINGS -
I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
WAYLON JENNINGS -
Country music isn’t a guitar, it isn’t a banjo, it isn’t a melody, it isn’t a lyric. It’s a feeling.
WAYLON JENNINGS -
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.
WAYLON JENNINGS -
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.
WAYLON JENNINGS -
Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
WAYLON JENNINGS -
There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
WAYLON JENNINGS -
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.
WAYLON JENNINGS -
The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.
WAYLON JENNINGS