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.
WAYLON JENNINGSYou know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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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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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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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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That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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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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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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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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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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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’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.
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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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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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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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