When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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And you’d sure better not be doing it because it’s a way to make a living, ’cause that ain’t always going to be easy. You got to believe it, believe in the music. You got to mean it.
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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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Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
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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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I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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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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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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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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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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There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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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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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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