"But you know, the system almost destroyed itself……" — Waylon Jennings
"But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us."
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74 Quotes by Waylon Jennings
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- There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it…
- Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
- You've got to care about the music...You'd better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money.…
- I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.
- The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin'…
- Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where…
- So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
- 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.
- This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
- To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.
- I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think…
- Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the…
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