There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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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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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I’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.
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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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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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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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This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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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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The only two things in life that make it worth livin’ / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women
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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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Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
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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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I don’t believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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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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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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Lately I’ve heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I’ve been idle, don’t mean that I’m tame.
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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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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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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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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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I can’t walk, so I can’t go home. No need to talk, cause I’m all alone. If I stay here they’re gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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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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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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