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

Waylon Jennings

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Waylon Jennings
Age: 64 †
Born: 1937
Born: June 15
Died: 2002
Died: February 13
Actor
Composer
Country Musician
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Littlefield
Texas
Waylon Arnold Jennings
Philosophy
Worst
Less
Best
Good
Men

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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.
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I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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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.
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I could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now.
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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.
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love.
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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.
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The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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