Waylon Jennings
Waylon Jennings
Waylon Arnold Jenningswas an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Jennings began playing guitar at eight and began performing at 12 on KVOW radio. His first band was The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a DJ on KVOW, KDAV, KYTI, and KLLL. In 1958, Buddy Holly arranged Jennings's first recording session, of "Jole Blon" and "When Sin Stops". Holly hired him to play bass. In Clear Lake, Iowa, Jennings gave up his seat on the ill-fated flight that crashed and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth15 June 1937
CityLittlefield, TX
CountryUnited States of America
Is your head up your ass so far that you can't pull it out?
I could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now.
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.
To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.
Those neon light nights, couldn't stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories. There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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, and no hurry, I've got the right to disappear.
Hitting the bottle again, ever than I've drunker been. Or is it drunker than I've ever been?
Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.
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.
This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.
If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones,
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.
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.
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.