The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.
WAYLON JENNINGSMainly what I learned from Buddy… was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn’t have any barriers to it.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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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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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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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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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He’s the biggest. He’s like an Elvis in this business, but no, he’s never been the rebel.
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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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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Mainly what I learned from Buddy… was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn’t have any barriers to it.
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I might be an endangered species.
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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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If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I’d save on shoes alone.
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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
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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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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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