Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
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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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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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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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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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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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 don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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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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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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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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His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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So I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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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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