Top 100 Waylon Quotes
#1. I'm not Waylon Jennings, but I do a fair imitation of him, and a few other country greats, like Willie Nelson. It would be great to sink my teeth into a project where I could play a country singer. I'm like an old cowboy.
Todd Lowe
#2. I could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now.
Waylon Jennings
#3. Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
Waylon Jennings
#4. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#5. Heaven is laying in my sweet baby's arms, hell is when my baby's not here.
Waylon Jennings
#6. My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.
Martina Mcbride
#7. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#8. I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
Waylon Jennings
#9. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#10. I like the feeling of hunger for it reminds me of all those hundreds of months without you.
Missing you, thinking of you, like a friendly lonely thin tiger smelling the slip of a season into a new season.
Waylon H. Lewis
#11. When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.
Waylon Jennings
#12. This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
Waylon Jennings
#13. Love is only available to those willing to be continually brave in weakness.
Waylon H. Lewis
#14. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#15. It is rare, this not being in a rush: for we are both already where we want to be.
Waylon H. Lewis
#16. Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
Waylon Jennings
#17. Want to enjoy an restful day? Wake up, turn your phone on, meditate, look at the sky - then toss your phone into the bushes.
Waylon H. Lewis
#18. I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
Waylon Jennings
#19. Meditate five minutes each morning and see it wake up your entire life.
Waylon H. Lewis
#20. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#21. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#22. I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings ... but it's impossible to do both.
Sam Hunt
#23. I am a lover of love and I am a lover of words, and the two together spin visions of airy castles, but also may pierce the heart of hope. And so I remind you that I am a fool, a poet, and what matters is reality, not lovely words. Words are full of promise, yet empty of matter.
Waylon H. Lewis
#24. I am surprised by your reality, and relieved: you are beautiful. Beautiful is more than attractive - it means inside is as outside.
Waylon H. Lewis
#25. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#26. So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
Waylon Jennings
#28. The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.
Waylon Jennings
#29. Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.
Waylon Jennings
#30. Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise.
Waylon Jennings
#31. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#32. He's slicker than a bald-tired semi on a mile of wet asphalt
Waylon Jennings
#33. The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
Waylon Jennings
#34. Defeated? Learn from it. Move forward. You're stronger now. Reach out for help. No shame, only learning. Seek out those you can learn from.
Waylon H. Lewis
#35. A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on.
Waylon Jennings
#36. Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together.
Willie Nelson
#37. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#38. I would like to make fun plans with you, but then just do ordinary things; or plan ordinary things but find we have stepped through a wardrobe into a world of ordinary magic.
Waylon H. Lewis
#39. Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.
Benmont Tench
#40. In the 80s, in the cover band I was in, we'd slip in original material. If you didn't say anything about it, people just didn't care. Sometimes they'd ask where that came from and you'd tell them, but you still had to play a bunch of Willie, Waylon, and Merle.
Andy Wilkinson
#41. But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
Waylon Jennings
#42. 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?
Waylon Jennings
#43. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#45. They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
Waylon Jennings
#47. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#48. I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
Waylon Jennings
#49. You are not my dream girl.
You are this earth. You are not a fantasy: you are my love. And love is friendship lit by a wooden match with a white tip on its red tip. I am your match, and you are mine.
Waylon H. Lewis
#50. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#51. We cannot play games well when it comes to this love: and this is how we shall win.
Waylon H. Lewis
#52. Next time someone tells you to smile for the camera, and you don't feel like it - say no, thanks. Don't fake your way into a happy-seeming life. Open vulnerable honesty is true positivity.
Waylon H. Lewis
#53. When you listen to radio and hear the same 20 or 25 songs, you start hunting down your CD's. Waylon Jennings' records were always around to listen to.
Randy Houser
#54. I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane.
Waylon Jennings
#55. To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.
Waylon Jennings
#56. Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
Waylon Jennings
#57. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#58. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#59. I would not like to keep you: a tiger must remain wild or it ceases to remain a Tiger. When we play, however, I would like to take you! I would like you to take me! I would like to ride you. We can take turns".
Waylon H. Lewis
#61. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#62. Ever had one of those days you couldn't hit the ground with your hat?
Waylon Jennings
#63. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#64. Waylon said it best when he sang to Willy; 'If you see me gettin' smaller, I'm leavin' don't be grievin', just gotta get away from here. If you see me gettin' smaller, don't worry, I'm in no hurry I've got the right to disappear.
Waylon Jennings
#65. If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones,
Waylon Jennings
#66. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#68. Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
Waylon Jennings
#69. Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
Waylon Jennings
#71. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#72. I'm old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.
Waylon Jennings
#73. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#74. I did recording sessions as a musician as well as a background vocalist and enjoyed every minute of it. I remember singing harmony with Waylon Jennings on a few songs that were hits. Chet Atkins always put me up so high that I strained to hit every note. It was a lot of fun.
Ray Stevens
#75. The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women
Waylon Jennings
#77. I say, Lord, do right be me, I'm tired of being lonesome, on'ry, and mean.
Waylon Jennings
#78. I would like to say that your beauty made it difficult to breathe.
Waylon H. Lewis
#80. When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
Waylon Jennings
#81. Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame.
Waylon Jennings
#82. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#83. I miss him already. He was a unique person and a dear friend. If a record came on the radio, you'd know it was Waylon Jennings.
Glen Campbell
#84. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#85. We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain't it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?
Waylon Jennings
#86. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#87. I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.
Waylon Jennings
#88. Now from where I sit this whole thing smells like its downwind from a cow barn on a hot June day!
Waylon Jennings
#89. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#92. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#93. If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
Waylon Jennings
#94. Each kind of generation of bands forgets how they got here. Waylon Jennings came out and they're like, 'That's not Patsy Cline.' And everyone panicked, like, 'I don't know what happened to country music, but this isn't it.'
Kristian Bush
#96. 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.
Waylon Jennings
#97. I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo, so country music was always in the house and the car. They threw in some Dolly Parton, too.
Christian Kane
#98. What I felt is the same kind of love I felt between Waylon and his audience. And that's what I miss.
Jessi Colter
#99. Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.
Waylon Jennings
#100. When I played with Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings in Vegas, the guys used to go, 'Dick, cut it out, man! You're moving around too much on this stage. You're making us look bad!'
Dick Dale
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