Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
WAYLON JENNINGSHis looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
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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 never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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Country music isn’t a guitar, it isn’t a banjo, it isn’t a melody, it isn’t a lyric. It’s a feeling.
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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 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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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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Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
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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 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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I don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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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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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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