Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
WAYLON JENNINGSI’m old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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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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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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What I did. I’ve listened to it, and I think it was more a west coast rock thing, you know? But it fit. It was country, but it was my own interpretation of country.
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I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn’t know how, but somehow I’d caused it.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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I might be an endangered species.
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He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what’s right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.
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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.
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I’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.
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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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I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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I ain’t got no reverse. I’ve learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.
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