"Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a……" — Waylon Jennings

"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."

— Waylon Jennings

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74 Quotes by Waylon Jennings

Waylon Jennings has 74 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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.
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…
If you see me getting smaller, I'm leaving, don't be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see…

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More Banjo Quotes

This quote is filed under Banjo Quotes, one of 47 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo… — Jackson Browne
There's many a good tune played by an old banjo. — Anthony Hopkins
I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to… — Jackson Browne
I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my… — Alan Jackson
Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little banjo where no one could see me. — Rupert Grint
The banjo am the instrument for me. — Grandpa Jones
The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else… — Vince Gill
I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago -… — Jonny Greenwood
I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but… — Doc Watson
I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came… — Bela Fleck
A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo — John Hartford
This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room… — Eddie Condon

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