Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
WAYLON JENNINGSThey got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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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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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What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I’m really about.
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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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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
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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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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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I don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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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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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn’t seem right. You let them come home, America.
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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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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I say, Lord, do right be me, I’m tired of being lonesome, on’ry, and mean.
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