Waylon Jennings Quotes

Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.

Did ole Hank really do it this way?

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.

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

We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain't it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?

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.

Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.

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.

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.

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.

Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise.

One night of love don't make up for six nights alone. But I'd rather have one than none Lord, cause I'm flesh and bone.

What bothers me most is that I don't bother you.

I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

I say, Lord, do right be me, I'm tired of being lonesome, on'ry, and mean.

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.

Hitting the bottle again, ever than I've drunker been. Or is it drunker than I've ever been?

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

Don't you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.

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.

When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.

I ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.

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

If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones.

When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.

Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.

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.

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

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.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

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.

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.

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

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.

Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.

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.

I didn't aim at anything except good music.

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.

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

I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

There's always one more way to do something-- your way.

Heaven is laying in my sweet baby's arms, hell is when my baby's not here.

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

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.

I might be an endangered species.