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.
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 could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He’s the biggest. He’s like an Elvis in this business, but no, he’s never been the rebel.
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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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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
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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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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I’ve drunker been. Or is it drunker than I’ve ever been?
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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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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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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.
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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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The 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.
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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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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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And yet his greatest desire was the simple warmth of love’s fire, cause it’s cold on the dark side of fame.
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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
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There’s always one more way to do things and that’s your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.
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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.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England.
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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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There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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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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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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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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