The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn’t happen until I did. It wasn’t a real country sound.
WAYLON JENNINGSDon’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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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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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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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 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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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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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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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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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 mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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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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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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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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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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