Waylon Jennings > Quotes

“Waylon said it best when he sang to Willy; 'If you see me gettin' smaller, I'm leavin' don't be grievin', just gotta get away from here. If you see me gettin' smaller, don't worry, I'm in no hurry I've got the right to disappear.”
― Waylon Jennings w/ Lenny Kaye

“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.”
― Waylon Jennings

“I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane.”
― Waylon Jennings

“I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.”
― Waylon Jennings

“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.”
― Waylon Jennings

“Ever had one of those days you couldn’t hit the ground with your hat?”
― Waylon Jennings

“Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.”
― Waylon Jennings

“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.”
― Waylon Jennings, Waylon: An Autobiography

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

“He’s slicker than a bald-tired semi on a mile of wet asphalt”
― Waylon Jennings

“Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.”
― Waylon Jennings

“He was mad enough to chew nails and spit horseshoes!”
― Waylon Jennings

“It's the World's Gone Crazy Cotillion”
― Waylon Jennings

“This world that I live in is empty and cold; the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.”
― Waylon Jennings

“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.”
― Waylon Jennings, Waylon: An Autobiography

“I Do Believe”
― Waylon Jennings

“Honesty is something you can't wear out.”
― Waylon Jennings

“Be careful of something that’s just what you want it to be.”
― Waylon Jennings, Waylon: Greatest Hits

“perspicacity.”
― Waylon Jennings, Waylon: An Autobiography

“People who put labels on music are those who have to merchandise it. It makes their job easier for them.”
― Waylon Jennings, Waylon: An Autobiography