I’m just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
WAYLON JENNINGSHis songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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I might be an endangered species.
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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 sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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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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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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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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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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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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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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
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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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Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
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When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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