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.
WAYLON JENNINGSAnd they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn’t want us to be the ones.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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.
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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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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
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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 say, Lord, do right be me, I’m tired of being lonesome, on’ry, and mean.
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Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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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 might be an endangered species.
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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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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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