There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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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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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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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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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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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I could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.
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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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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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When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.
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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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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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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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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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