Waylon Jennings Quotes - Page 3

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• Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.

  Waylon Jennings

  Cuz

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• It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.

  Waylon Jennings

  Death, Loss, Tragedy

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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.

  Waylon Jennings

  Men, Order, Years

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• I'm old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.

  Waylon Jennings

  Crazy, Boys, Thinking

  Song: G.I. Joe

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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.

  Waylon Jennings

  Believe, Might, Stuff

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• But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. 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.

  Waylon Jennings

  Play, Voice, People

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• I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

  Waylon Jennings

  Song, Band, Problem

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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.

  Waylon Jennings

  Country, Real, Thinking

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• The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.

  Waylon Jennings

  Hero, Reality, Villain

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• They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.

  Waylon Jennings

  Order, Law, Long

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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. 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.

  Waylon Jennings

  Awards, Records, Want

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• You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.

  Waylon Jennings

  Sorry, Artist, Young

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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.

  Waylon Jennings

  Song, Art, Winning

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• Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.

  Waylon Jennings

  Heart, Guy, Bigs

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• The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.

  Waylon Jennings

  War, Home, Fighting

  Song: America

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• Did ole Hank really do it this way?

  Waylon Jennings

  Musical, Way

  Song: Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way

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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.

  Waylon Jennings

  Boys, Alive, Guilty

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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.

  Waylon Jennings

  Umpires, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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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.

  Waylon Jennings

  Names, Records, Bigs

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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.

  Waylon Jennings

  Perfect, Trying, This Is Me

  Song: Nobody Knows

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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.

  Waylon Jennings

  Drug, Helping, Blame

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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.

  Waylon Jennings

  War, White, Guy

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• Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

  Waylon Jennings

  Records, Produce, Deals

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