And yet his greatest desire was the simple warmth of love’s fire, cause it’s cold on the dark side of fame.
WAYLON JENNINGSYou know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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One night of love don’t make up for six nights alone. But I’d rather have one than none Lord, cause I’m flesh and bone.
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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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When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.
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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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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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I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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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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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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What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
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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.
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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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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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.
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Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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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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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
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