Waylon Jennings Quotes

I'm a Gibson guy. I play anything from Hummingbirds to J200s.

One thing about Texas people, they're very passionate about their Rock N' Roll, and I love it.

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.

I owe my discovery of the Hot Club of Cowtown to Kinky Friedman, leader of the Texas Jewboys. When I saw that Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys were headlining the 2003 Santa Clarita Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival, I thought it my duty to check out the band that had inspired the Texas Jewboys.

The harmonica is a great instrument.

I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.

Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.

We're all big fans of bluegrass.

I don't hate anything about Texas. I love my state. I love my area. It's like home.

I like hip-hop and rock music.

Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

We hear about the successful "Texanisation" of the Republican party. And doesn't Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions?

King of kings, that must be Elvis.

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

They call me the trippy king.

The ministers and the Jacobins are making the king declare war tomorrow on Austria. The ministers are hoping that this move will frighten the Austrians and that within three weeks we will be negotiating (God forbid that this should happen). May we at last be avenged for all the outrages we have suffered from this country!

Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.

I was talking to Alan Jackson. He had his second Greatest Hits album. He said, You don't ever get into this really thinking you're gonna make it.

Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake their shackle.

... in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.

King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king. He led Saudi Arabia through a period of unparalleled progress and development.

The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his partial faculties--that is, providing he is perfectly aware of the precise nature of sight and does not confuse it with second sightnor with madness.