Waylon Jennings Quotes

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

He's slicker than a bald-tired semi on a mile of wet asphalt

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

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.

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

Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.

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

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.

Now from where I sit this whole thing smells like its downwind from a cow barn on a hot June day!

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

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

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?

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.

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

I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

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.

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.

He was mad enough to chew nails and spit horseshoes!

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 didn't aim at anything except good music.

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.

A lot of performers, if they go to bed with a woman on the road, they think of her as a slut. As a person and a man, what does that make them then? Lowlife or high living, you give as good as you get, and I don't think women's sex lives have a thing to do with the kinds of human beings they are.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.

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

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 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.

Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.

Did ole Hank really do it this way?

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'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.

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

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