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.
WAYLON JENNINGSI was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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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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I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I’m really about.
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The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.
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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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I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated 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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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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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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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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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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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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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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