Waylon Jennings Quotes

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.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.

Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame.

Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.

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.

Is your head up your ass so far that you can't pull it out?

I could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now.

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

The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women

Those neon light nights, couldn't stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories. There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?

This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.

Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.

I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.

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.

You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.

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

If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.

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.

Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.