Waylon Jennings Quotes

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 

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here. 
Waylon Jennings 

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 

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 

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us. 
Waylon Jennings 

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 

Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that. 
Waylon Jennings 

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks. 
Waylon Jennings 

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 

I didn't aim at anything except good music. 
Waylon Jennings 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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

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 

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 

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 

You know, I feel sorry for the young artists. 
Waylon Jennings 

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. 
Waylon Jennings