Waylon Arnold Jennings Quotes

• 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.

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• You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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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• Jessi is a great person. She really is. She’s been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she’s understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.

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  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.

   

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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• I didn’t aim at anything except good music.

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• Honesty is something you can’t wear out.

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• Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

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• Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

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Waylon Arnold Jennings (30)

Birth:	5th June, 1937
Death:	13th February, 2002
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Musician, Singer

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• 1902 - Luis Barragan
• 1959 - Nikita Koloff
• 1965 - Vito Fossella
• 1958 - Martin Fry
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Deaths

• 1955 - Matthew Henson
• 1981 - Max Delbruck
• 1997 - Veronica Wedgwood
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