Lately I’ve heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I’ve been idle, don’t mean that I’m tame.
WAYLON JENNINGSThis world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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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.
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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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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.
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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’m a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that’s the way I feel about people who “play on sessions.
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To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.
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One night of love don’t make up for six nights alone. But I’d rather have one than none Lord, cause I’m flesh and bone.
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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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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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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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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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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything 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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