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.
WAYLON JENNINGSThe men who could not fight, in a war that didn’t seem right. You let them come home, America.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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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 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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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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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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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.
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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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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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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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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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I can’t walk, so I can’t go home. No need to talk, cause I’m all alone. If I stay here they’re gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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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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