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.
WAYLON JENNINGSThere is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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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And you’d sure better not be doing it because it’s a way to make a living, ’cause that ain’t always going to be easy. You got to believe it, believe in the music. You got to mean it.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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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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Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
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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 don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
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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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Lately I’ve heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I’ve been idle, don’t mean that I’m tame.
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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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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