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.
WAYLON JENNINGSFinally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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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 have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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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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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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I’m old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.
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If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I’d save on shoes alone.
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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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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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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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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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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