Top 60 Waylon Jennings Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

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2. “I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.”

— Waylon Jennings

3. “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

4. “I say, Lord, do right be me, I’m tired of being lonesome, on’ry, and mean.”

— Waylon Jennings

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

— Waylon Jennings

6. “Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?”

— Waylon Jennings

7. “I’m just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.”

— Waylon Jennings

8. “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.”

— Waylon Jennings

9. “Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.”

— Waylon Jennings

10. “We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain’t it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?”

— Waylon Jennings

11. “If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.”

— Waylon Jennings

12. “Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.”

— Waylon Jennings

13. “Honesty is something you can’t wear out.”

— Waylon Jennings

14. “What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.”

— Waylon Jennings

15. “So I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.”

— Waylon Jennings

16. “This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.”

— Waylon Jennings

17. “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

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

— Waylon Jennings

19. “To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.”

— Waylon Jennings

20. “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.”

— Waylon Jennings

21. “Nobody knows I’m Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I’ve got the perfect disguise.”

— Waylon Jennings

22. “I’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.”

— Waylon Jennings

23. “Hitting the bottle again, ever than I’ve drunker been. Or is it drunker than I’ve ever been?”

— Waylon Jennings

24. “You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.”

— Waylon Jennings

25. “Did ole Hank really do it this way?”

— Waylon Jennings

26. “I might be an endangered species.”

— Waylon Jennings

27. “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.”

— Waylon Jennings

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

— Waylon Jennings

29. “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?”

— Waylon Jennings

30. “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

31. “The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.”

— Waylon Jennings

32. “They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.”

— Waylon Jennings

33. “I could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.”

— Waylon Jennings

34. “Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.”

— Waylon Jennings

35. “I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.”

— Waylon Jennings

36. “Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.”

— Waylon Jennings

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

— Waylon Jennings

38. “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

39. “Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.”

— Waylon Jennings

40. “When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.”

— Waylon Jennings

41. “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

42. “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

43. “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

44. “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.”

— Waylon Jennings

45. “Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.”

— Waylon Jennings

46. “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

47. “I’m old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.”

— Waylon Jennings

48. “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

49. “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

50. “Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.”

— Waylon Jennings