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.
WAYLON JENNINGSThe 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.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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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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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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You’ve got to care about the music…You’d better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.
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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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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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One thing is that I wasn’t getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold.
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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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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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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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