His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.
WAYLON JENNINGSHitting the bottle again, ever than I’ve drunker been. Or is it drunker than I’ve ever been?
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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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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I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I’m really about.
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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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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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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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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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What I did. I’ve listened to it, and I think it was more a west coast rock thing, you know? But it fit. It was country, but it was my own interpretation of country.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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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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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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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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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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