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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This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
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I can’t walk, so I can’t go home. No need to talk, cause I’m all alone. If I stay here they’re gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
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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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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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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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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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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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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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And yet his greatest desire was the simple warmth of love’s fire, cause it’s cold on the dark side of fame.
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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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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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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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Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
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Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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