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Waylon Jennings Quotes

Total quotes: 3

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Waylon Jennings

Birthname

Birthday: June 15, 1937

Birthplace: Littlefield, Texas, United States

Death: February 13, 2002

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Singer, Singer-songwriter, Musician, Guitarist, Actor

Total quotes: 3

“I met John Lennon, and I - you know, we were cutting up and everything at one of the Grammy things. And I said, man, you're a lot of - you're funny. I didn't know you were funny. I said, I thought you were some kind of mad guy or something like that. And he said, me? He said: Listen, people in England think you shoot folks.”

— Waylon Jennings, Waylon Jennings: An Outlaw Opens Up Musically

Tagged: Musicians, Legends

“But the way I developed my style, really, was getting bored. I would be in a nightclub and play for four hours, and you sing the song like somebody - the guy that wrote it or the guy that sang it. And I got tired of that. So I started changing the rhythms and maybe giving it a heavier beat, and just rearranging the song to fit what I felt. And it worked.”

— Waylon Jennings, Waylon Jennings: An Outlaw Opens Up Musically

Tagged: Musical Styles, Creative, Boredom, unique

“Well, the thing was, I was writing songs, and they sounded different. They sounded - you know, I thought, man, mine don't sound like anybody else's. You know? Which I didn't realize was good. I thought - but you couldn't imagine it being played on the radio, because I would use calypso beats and hard rhythms, and what have you. And they wouldn't have fit, at all, on the radio, in country music that way.”

— Waylon Jennings, Waylon Jennings: An Outlaw Opens Up Musically

Tagged: Musical Styles

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