Waylon Jennings Quotes

I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank Williams. If you put Hank and Elvis together, there wasn't that musical difference. But as the Beatles showed up and the English invasion, I think country music got pretty far away from rock n' roll.

Confronted by an unknowable, historians demand evidence, witnesses, corroboration.

'Neil Young Heart of Gold', that was a valentine to Nashville and country music in the Grand Ole Opry tradition and Hank Williams.

To me, Hank Williams is the first rock-and-roll star.

Everything about Hank Williams interests me. His music, his life. His death. His impact.

If Hank Williams had lived any longer, his name would have been one of the most hated in the land. Nashville would have dug him deep.

Hank Williams was playing rock-n-roll before rock-n-roll was.

We don't want to confirm or deny the Holocaust. We oppose every type of crime against any people. But we want to know whether this crime actually took place or not.

I'd put Hank Williams picture on one hundred dollar bills.

Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.

The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

When I say history is a matter of life and death, I mean this: If you really don't know history, you are a victim of whatever the authorities tell you. You have no way of checking up on them. You have no way of deciding whether there is any truth in what they are saying.

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. ... Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.

Le public ne sait pas toujours de sirer le vrai. Thepublicdoesnot alwaysknowhow todesirethetruth.

I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

If you wanna know the truth, you make or break my day. If you wanna know the truth, I wouldn't have it any other way.

When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart of science.

I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true.

Take it, and turn to facts my fantasies.

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

The bedrock thing of country music is, it's about storytelling. I feel like I was able to find a niche because I connected to that in some way.

Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what is in fact the case.