If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
WAYLON JENNINGSI never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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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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Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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If you see me getting smaller, I’m leaving, don’t be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don’t worry, and no hurry, I’ve got the right to disappear.
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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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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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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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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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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 might be an endangered species.
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That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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I don’t believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what’s right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.
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