Waylon Jennings Quotes

I've always been crazy and the trouble that it's put me through;
I've been busted for things that I did, and I didn't do.
I can't say I’m proud of all of the things that I’ve done,
But I can say I’ve never intentionally hurt anyone.

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

Oh rainy day woman,
I've never seem to see you for the good times or the sunshine.
You have been a friend of mine, rainy day woman.

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.

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

Be careful of something that’s just what you want it to be.

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

I Do Believe

He was mad enough to chew nails and spit horseshoes!

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.

It's the World's Gone Crazy Cotillion

Don't you think this outlaw bit has done got out of hand?
What started out to be a joke, the law don't understand.
Was it singing through my nose that got me busted by the man?
Maybe this here outlaw bit has done got out of hand.

She's a good-hearted woman in love with a good-timin' man.
She loves him in spite of his ways she don't understand.
With teardrops and laughter they pass through this world hand in hand,
A good-hearted woman, lovin' a good-timin' man.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

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