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.
WAYLON JENNINGSSo I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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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We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain’t it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?
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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 don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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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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Nobody knows I’m Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I’ve got the perfect disguise.
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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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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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It was all devastating. I’d never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn’t know where to put it in my life.
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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn’t seem right. You let them come home, America.
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