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.
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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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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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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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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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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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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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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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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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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I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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So I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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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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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn’t seem right. You let them come home, America.
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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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