Jerry Jeff Walker Quotes

#1. There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my blessings by looking at what I have?' I'm pretty much an optimistic guy.

Jerry Jeff Walker

#2. Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is.

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#3. In the '60s, I thought golf was bourgeois, so I didn't play at all for 20 years.

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#4. Taking over our own business and running it ourselves has tied us even more to our fans.

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#5. Drinking in a honky tonk, just kicking hippies asses and raising hell.

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#6. The only way to know how much is enough, is to do too much, and then back up.

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#7. Nashville is the business center. They forget that the bottom line of it all is still the song.

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#8. A lot of Texans go up to New York and stay there forever. If there are any two places with more individual characters, I don't know them.

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#9. I'm a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it.

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#10. Texas is where I found my musical self.

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#11. You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.

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#12. New Yorkers have their own way of speaking, their own tempo, and Texans are a lot like that. As much as you think Texas is one thing and New York is another, they're very much the same.

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#13. 'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

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#14. I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have a career as much as I'm having an adventure with a guitar. I never liked the business way of doing it. You have to follow some sort of instinct.

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#15. In the '80s I started running, staying in shape.

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#16. Living safe behind a wall, never tasting life at all.

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#17. I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.

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#18. Our audience is really upbeat. Likes to have a good time. They're not introverted or shy.

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#19. I always liked having a good time. I got into this business because I got fired from any job I ever had because I stayed out late playing music.

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#20. If only you could pack up everything you love, and everyone who'd ever been your friend.

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#21. He's not responsible for what he's doing, cause his mother made him what he is.

Jerry Jeff Walker