Best 60 quotes of Waylon Jennings on MyQuotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

Did ole Hank really do it this way?

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

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

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

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.

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

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 might be an endangered species.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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