Lately I’ve heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I’ve been idle, don’t mean that I’m tame.
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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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I’ve drunker been. Or is it drunker than I’ve ever been?
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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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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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When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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I’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.
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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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I’m a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that’s the way I feel about people who “play on sessions.
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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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The only two things in life that make it worth livin’ / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women
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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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This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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