Waylon Jennings

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I'm old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Crazy
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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
Collection: Country
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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Order
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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Hero
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Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Song
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Heart
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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: War
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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Musical
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Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Perfect
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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
Collection: Later In Life
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Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Brother
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Inspirational
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This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Expression
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One night of love don't make up for six nights alone. But I'd rather have one than none Lord, cause I'm flesh and bone.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Honesty
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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Beer
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Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Relationship
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Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Mean
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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.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Song
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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Lonely
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He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what's right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Religious
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I can't walk, so I can't go home. No need to talk, cause I'm all alone. If I stay here they're gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Home
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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim. And yet his greatest desire was the simple warmth of love's fire, cause it's cold on the dark side of fame.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Song
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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I've drunker been. Or is it drunker than I've ever been?
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Alcohol
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What bothers me most is that I don't bother you.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Rejection
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If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I'd save on shoes alone.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Philosophy
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I say, Lord, do right be me, I'm tired of being lonesome, on'ry, and mean.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Religious
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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
Collection: Rocks
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I could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Order
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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
Collection: Guitar
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He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what’s right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Strong