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.
WAYLON JENNINGSMaybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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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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Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.
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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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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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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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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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I say, Lord, do right be me, I’m tired of being lonesome, on’ry, and mean.
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One thing is that I wasn’t getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold.
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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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I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn’t know how, but somehow I’d caused it.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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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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