Top 82 Quotes & Sayings by Waylon Jennings - Page 2

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?

Did ole Hank really do it this way?

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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