Quotes from Waylon Jennings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane.

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

If you see me getting smaller, I'm leaving, don't be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don't worry, I'm in no hurry, I've got the right to disappear.

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

Ever had one of those days you couldn't hit the ground with your hat?

Now from where I sit this whole thing smells like its downwind from a cow barn on a hot June day!

A lot of performers, if they go to bed with a woman on the road, they think of her as a slut. As a person and a man, what does that make them then? Lowlife or high living, you give as good as you get, and I don't think women's sex lives have a thing to do with the kinds of human beings they are.

He's slicker than a bald-tired semi on a mile of wet asphalt

He was mad enough to chew nails and spit horseshoes!

Don't you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.

This world that I live in is empty and cold; the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

There were two kinds of people Grandpa didn't trust, a preacher and a cop. He'd say "They both think they're sanctified in everything they do.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

It's the World's Gone Crazy Cotillion

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.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

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.

To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.