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.
WAYLON JENNINGSIf you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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There’s always one more way to do things and that’s your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.
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Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.
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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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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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And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn’t want us to be the ones.
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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 say, Lord, do right be me, I’m tired of being lonesome, on’ry, and mean.
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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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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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Now, I don’t know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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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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