Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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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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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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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And 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.
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What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
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I might be an endangered species.
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Mainly what I learned from Buddy… was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn’t have any barriers to it.
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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 may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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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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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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Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
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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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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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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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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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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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The 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.
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Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
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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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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.
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Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.
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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I’ve drunker been. Or is it drunker than I’ve ever been?
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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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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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I can’t walk, so I can’t go home. No need to talk, cause I’m all alone. If I stay here they’re gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
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Nobody knows I’m Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I’ve got the perfect disguise.
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