Waylon Jennings Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.

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

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

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

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.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I might be an endangered species.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I didn't aim at anything except good music.

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.

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.