The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
WAYLON JENNINGSThe villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
WAYLON JENNINGSThe 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.
WAYLON JENNINGSBut Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
WAYLON JENNINGSBut ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
WAYLON JENNINGSThey got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
WAYLON JENNINGSThis is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
WAYLON JENNINGSWas an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
WAYLON JENNINGSNobody knows I’m Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I’ve got the perfect disguise.
WAYLON JENNINGSMainly 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 JENNINGSWhat 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.
WAYLON JENNINGSI mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
WAYLON JENNINGSThat was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
WAYLON JENNINGSIf we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
WAYLON JENNINGSYou’ve got to care about the music…You’d better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money.
WAYLON JENNINGSHis looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
WAYLON JENNINGSYou 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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