Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
WAYLON JENNINGSI sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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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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So I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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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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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.
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If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I’d save on shoes alone.
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We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain’t it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?
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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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Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
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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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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.
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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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I ain’t got no reverse. I’ve learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.
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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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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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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England.
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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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I’m just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
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I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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