If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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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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Lately I’ve heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I’ve been idle, don’t mean that I’m tame.
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And yet his greatest desire was the simple warmth of love’s fire, cause it’s cold on the dark side of fame.
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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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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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I could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.
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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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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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I don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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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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That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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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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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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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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