But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
WAYLON JENNINGSGot my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.
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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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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You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins’ name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn’t have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.
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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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Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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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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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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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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I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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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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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 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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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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