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.
WAYLON JENNINGSI’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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If you see me getting smaller, I’m leaving, don’t be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don’t worry, and no hurry, I’ve got the right to disappear.
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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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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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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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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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I might be an endangered species.
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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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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn’t seem right. You let them come home, America.
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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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Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
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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.
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Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.
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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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