Quotes from 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.

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.

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.

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

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

You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.

Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.

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.

The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women

The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.

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.

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.

When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.

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.

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.

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

Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.

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

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.

This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.