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.
WAYLON JENNINGSCountry music isn’t a guitar, it isn’t a banjo, it isn’t a melody, it isn’t a lyric. It’s a feeling.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
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The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn’t happen until I did. It wasn’t a real country sound.
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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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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I say, Lord, do right be me, I’m tired of being lonesome, on’ry, and mean.
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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 didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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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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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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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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I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
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