Waylon Jennings Quotes
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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. 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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The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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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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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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If you see me getting smaller, I'm leaving, don't be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don't worry, and no hurry, I've got the right to disappear.
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When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn't happen until I did. It wasn't a real country sound, what I did. I've listened to it, and I think it was more a west coast rock thing, you know? But it fit. It was country, but it was my own interpretation of country.
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... 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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You've got to care about the music...You'd better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money. 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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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I've drunker been. Or is it drunker than I've ever been?
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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim. 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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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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I could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now.
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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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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... 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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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise.
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Don't you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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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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He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what's right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.
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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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When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.
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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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I might be an endangered species.
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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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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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