You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
WAYLON JENNINGSI 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.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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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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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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Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
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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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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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I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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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 didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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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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Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.
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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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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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That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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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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We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain’t it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?
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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
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I don’t believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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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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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn’t want us to be the ones.
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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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