Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
WAYLON JENNINGSThe 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.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
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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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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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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 was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
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I might be an endangered species.
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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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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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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’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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One thing is that I wasn’t getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold.
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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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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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