Waylon Jennings quote: "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."

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
WAYLON JENNINGS

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were...
WAYLON JENNINGS

It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know wh...
WAYLON JENNINGS

I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this ...
WAYLON JENNINGS

Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it should...
WAYLON JENNINGS

Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Che...
WAYLON JENNINGS

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything ...
WAYLON JENNINGS

Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have '...
WAYLON JENNINGS

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
WAYLON JENNINGS

But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened....
WAYLON JENNINGS

But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I...
WAYLON JENNINGS

We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy fro...
WAYLON JENNINGS

I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
WAYLON JENNINGS

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform e...
WAYLON JENNINGS

Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
WAYLON JENNINGS

You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer ...
WAYLON JENNINGS

I didn't aim at anything except good music.
WAYLON JENNINGS

A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should...
WAYLON JENNINGS

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to...
WAYLON JENNINGS

I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't thi...
WAYLON JENNINGS

Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, ...
WAYLON JENNINGS

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
WAYLON JENNINGS

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
WAYLON JENNINGS

Honesty is something you can't wear out.
WAYLON JENNINGS

I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane.
WAYLON JENNINGS

Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the busi...
WAYLON JENNINGS

One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the award...
WAYLON JENNINGS

was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
WAYLON JENNINGS

sold out to religion.
WAYLON JENNINGS

Honesty is something you can't wear out
WAYLON JENNINGS

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
WAYLON JENNINGS

Mainly what I learned from Buddy, ... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shou...
WAYLON JENNINGS

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at leas...
WAYLON JENNINGS

You are not my dream girl.

You are this earth. You are not a fantasy: you are my love. An...
WAYLON H. LEWIS

The alchemy that is friendship mixed with attraction is important. The alchemy that is two hearts, t...
WAYLON H. LEWIS

I know what love is and it is friendship, set afire.

Love is easy. Love is chemistry—a ...
WAYLON H. LEWIS

Be the rise not the fall
JOSEPH WAYLON MILLARD

If you and I spend our seasons together we would find that our dreams and fantasies of happily-ever-...
WAYLON H. LEWIS

I like the feeling of hunger for it reminds me of all those hundreds of months without you.
WAYLON H. LEWIS

I would like to do many things before we should ever call this anything. For when we touch the earth...
WAYLON H. LEWIS

Love is only available to those willing to be continually brave in weakness.
WAYLON H. LEWIS

When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate ef...
GARY JENNINGS

Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over sub...
GARY JENNINGS

I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist ...
GARY JENNINGS

When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched...
GARY JENNINGS

I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. Fo...
GARY JENNINGS

I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts,...
GARY JENNINGS

I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
GARY JENNINGS

When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the f...
GARY JENNINGS

To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
GARY JENNINGS

It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.
KEN JENNINGS

Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.
PETER JENNINGS

The decline of geography in academia is easy to understand: we live in an age of ever-increasing spe...
KEN JENNINGS

Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, ha...
ELIZABETH JENNINGS

I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.
PETER JENNINGS

I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.
ELIZABETH JENNINGS

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.
PETER JENNINGS

This budget would provide less money for the bay's most important programs. At a time when the state...
ANN JENNINGS

Apparently this guy knows the shortcuts very well, ... In each case, he grabbed or attempted to grab...
ANN JENNINGS

It's very early in the process, ... The FBI is still processing fingerprints so we can be absolutely...
ANN JENNINGS

We're the local police, and we're dealing with local crime,
ANN JENNINGS

I can't be sure that it was the first one, ... but we haven't seen any kind of rash.
ANN JENNINGS

We sent in, let's just say, a lot of patrol officers,
ANN JENNINGS

That sounds like her. We did make some good memories.
ALEXIS JENNINGS

Moments like that will always stand out.
ALEXIS JENNINGS

Even when she's by herself, that's the biggest thing about her, that smile. On the court, you can te...
ALEXIS JENNINGS

She wants to make something of herself, but she always wants a lot for her teammates.
ALEXIS JENNINGS

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.
KEN JENNINGS

SUBJECT: Real original
Dear Dark Assholes,
I get the point. Showing me that you know how t...
S.L. JENNINGS

Ethanol needs to be part of the goal that helps reduce our major dependence of foreign oil. We've ne...
BRIAN JENNINGS

We are probably overdue for this.
BRIAN JENNINGS

The U.S. is currently under a crude oil mandate, because few if any other choices exist for our tran...
BRIAN JENNINGS

The American Coalition for Ethanol is pleased that the state of Wisconsin has taken this critical fi...
BRIAN JENNINGS

We've been working on this quite awhile. I feel like our business plan is strong.
BRIAN JENNINGS

I'm just a little frustrated,
BRIAN JENNINGS

I work about four minutes a year. The rest of the time I'm trying to have as good a time as possible...
BRIAN JENNINGS

I work about four minutes a year,
BRIAN JENNINGS

That left me scratching my head too, that's something we wouldn't advocate at all. To grant a waiver...
BRIAN JENNINGS

Consumers have suffered enough from tight fuel supplies and soaring prices at the pump, while the pe...
BRIAN JENNINGS

That's a great way to end the year. I'm excited about that.
BRENT JENNINGS

(The Devils) want to send out the seniors the right way and get things ready for next year -- and co...
BRENT JENNINGS

There's no question about that. He's a pretty intense individual. He knows what he wants. He'll rebo...
BRENT JENNINGS

Technically, O'Loughlin is pretty solid. We needed to make this a guts match heading into the third ...
BRENT JENNINGS

I'm proud of our kids and what they achieved. There was a little disappointment in some cases, but t...
BRENT JENNINGS

Our horses in the middle and upper weights did a great job for us.
BRENT JENNINGS

We came in knowing it was going to be a rough ride. We had to be ready. We just gave up too many bon...
BRENT JENNINGS

We worked their tails off in December and January, and we took our lumps back then knowing that this...
BRENT JENNINGS

We knew they were solid. We felt like we matched up with them. We have to learn that we can't give u...
BRENT JENNINGS

To have six champs in the middle, that's a lot. Those are some tough weight classes. Our kids really...
BRENT JENNINGS

Students should at least think twice about going down to Kirkwood and opening bar tabs on your Visa.
BOB JENNINGS

We live in a consumer world where people are obsessed with keeping up with the Joneses.
BOB JENNINGS

You could technically call online poker investing, but that doesn't mean that it is good.
BOB JENNINGS

Investing is never going to get easier.
BOB JENNINGS

If you are going to give a party, you will have to check to make sure those who drink alcohol are at...
BOB JENNINGS

These kids get to learn how much work it takes to put a story together. It's a chance for them to wo...
BOB JENNINGS

I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism agains...
PETER JENNINGS

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still incl...
ELIZABETH JENNINGS

You don't see them very often. Also the groin is repeated up here in the fabulous room up in the gra...
CAROLYN JENNINGS

We have all private bathrooms and all private bedrooms leading out to balconies.
CAROLYN JENNINGS

She's having the party a little early in the phase, but she really cares for the community. She has ...
CAROLYN JENNINGS

It's more of an Italian Renaissance feel, but we've added some American feel to it. Even though with...
CAROLYN JENNINGS

During the event we're going to have somebody up there playing the violin.
CAROLYN JENNINGS

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still includ...
ELIZABETH JENNINGS

She has made almost no statement at all, kept his funeral strictly private, and keeps her own dignif...
PETER JENNINGS

I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't...
PETER JENNINGS

When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fing...
KEN JENNINGS

Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.
KEN JENNINGS

A Fanfare for Peter.
PETER JENNINGS

I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.
PETER JENNINGS

If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much f...
SHOOTER JENNINGS

Spam filters have gotten so good, a properly managed filter can turn the sting of spam into a minor ...
RICHI JENNINGS

I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.
KEN JENNINGS

It's the largest tropical storm we've ever had, ... It's engulfed the entire state. This is going to...
TONI JENNINGS

When you see people who are really good at game shows, the one common attribute is a cool head under...
KEN JENNINGS

I guess you have to have John Pilger. With his tan, his Byronic haircut, his trudging priestly deliv...
CHARLES JENNINGS

You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it als...
KEN JENNINGS

Almost 10 million Americans are living with cancer. I am sure I will learn from them how to cope wit...
PETER JENNINGS

Hundreds of you have been like family. It feels good to have such a family right now.
PETER JENNINGS

a man of conscience and integrity.
PETER JENNINGS

Alyssa is an extremely talented goal keeper who has great potential. Her over all quickness and reac...
STEVE JENNINGS

Savannah is a natural athlete who possesses great physical strength and quickness. She is very offen...
STEVE JENNINGS

As a staff, we are extremely pleased with the talent and ability of this year's class. There is grea...
STEVE JENNINGS

The field hockey staff is thrilled about our teams continued success in the classroom. To win the Pa...
STEVE JENNINGS

The entire program is extremely proud that Maureen has been recognized in the classroom and on the f...
STEVE JENNINGS

You may have your routes being longer, which means kids would have to get on the bus a little earlie...
STEVE JENNINGS

I am really proud of our kids for coming out and getting our first win on our new field in style. It...
STEVE JENNINGS

It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing.
KEN JENNINGS

Without him, I find myself stumbling and in the dark…. Loving him so much and not having him with ...
PETER JENNINGS

The worse things got around me the cooler I tend to be, ... I tend to focus very hard under pressure...
PETER JENNINGS

There will be good days and bad, which means that some days I may be cranky and some days really cra...
PETER JENNINGS

There are a lot of people in this business who believe that part of our job is to reassure the publi...
PETER JENNINGS

For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., where's t...
KEN JENNINGS

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.
PETER JENNINGS

It has got a rear spoiler and exhausts on either side and it could have been lowered in some way.
PAUL JENNINGS

I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing o...
PETER JENNINGS

People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often ...
KEN JENNINGS

There's just something hypnotic about maps.
KEN JENNINGS

Pitching can be hard at times, but when you think about it, it's very simple. I've thrown a million ...
JASON JENNINGS

I wasn't familiar enough to teach about those things, let alone how to do those things, which I now ...
KRISTINE JENNINGS

Most of them (the offers) were 'Where's the check?', whereas John's venture was very well funded and...
KEN JENNINGS

Seems like yesterday; seems like forever -- all at the same time.
PETER JENNINGS

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.
PETER JENNINGS

I have a lot to learn from them, and 'living' is the key word.
PETER JENNINGS

[In her Aug. 12 letter,] Anchor Jennings an inspiration, ... glamour, professionalism, dependability...
PETER JENNINGS

I was not running away from anything when I left Canada. ... I didn't come to America for economic o...
PETER JENNINGS

because he kept a childlike sense of awe about the world.
PETER JENNINGS

was quite a surprise.
PETER JENNINGS

[His last posting came on July 29, Jennings' birthday.] Many thanks to all of you for your birthday ...
PETER JENNINGS

When you think about the events that we've been through, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to, I gues...
PETER JENNINGS

It was a dreadful mistake, a foolish experiment,
PETER JENNINGS

I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organ...
PETER JENNINGS

No. I write down thoughts as they occur to me. You never know when you're going to need a good idea.
PETER JENNINGS

Beck does a mean robot.
GARTH JENNINGS

I want the knowledge and know-how to lead others to success.
DAVID JENNINGS

We don't view this as a crisis. We have an opportunity to review conditions and make some changes ba...
DAVID JENNINGS

We had given up hope of ever getting the statue back and put in an insurance claim and next day it w...
DAVID JENNINGS

there was no criteria.
DAVID JENNINGS

From that point on. I think they felt like they could do nothing wrong.
DAVID JENNINGS

Nyack College is an educational institute committed to training its students to serve both the churc...
DAVID JENNINGS

Alysha is very deserving of the award that exemplifies youth activism, ethics and bravery. We look f...
LISA JENNINGS

Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.
KEN JENNINGS

As a matter of fact, that's how we are, yes sir. We're not big names or guys with all this hype or a...
KELLY JENNINGS

It's another big game. It's the Peach Bowl. It's not a national championship or BCS game, but we don...
KELLY JENNINGS

It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.
KEN JENNINGS

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.
KEN JENNINGS

It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.
KEN JENNINGS

If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.
KEN JENNINGS

One guy had this can't-miss idea to go dig up old coins at the site of former disused government min...
KEN JENNINGS

Not long after my last win on Jeopardy!, I got a call from the company about this collaboration and ...
KEN JENNINGS

Now, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to play for you the Duke Ellington classic – 'Take the Train'...
PETER JENNINGS

I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment…. My mindset is: If I'm not ou...
LYNN JENNINGS

There's not a little tool. It's simply knowing what to look for and looking for it.
VICTORIA JENNINGS

Initially, our intent was to develop them for use in developing countries, and then it became clear ...
VICTORIA JENNINGS

We had a blast there.
ANDREW JENNINGS

We did a really good job with our patterns out of the back. We didn't do very much with the ball out...
STEVE JENNINGS

We know they are less likely to be restrained and more likely to be improperly and unsafely seated i...
CHRISTENE JENNINGS

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to...
PETER JENNINGS

The preparedness on all levels has increased 10-fold from the local citizens up to the government le...
DAVID JENNINGS

Worrying about the past or future only steals from this moments perfection
KOLTER JENNINGS

This world is a sick and twisted place full of love
KOLTER JENNINGS

He was a great visionary leader ... and a great spiritual leader.
DAVID JENNINGS

If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed....
KEN JENNINGS

George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not ...
PETER JENNINGS

Some misleading reports have incorrectly characterized EPA's repeal of the two percent oxygen requir...
BRIAN JENNINGS

I think these classes are good because it gives EMA directors a wide range of knowledge and differen...
DAVID JENNINGS

I do not know what she was thinking, but I was remembering the years we have lived together, yet nev...
GARY JENNINGS

[In Michigan, Maryland and California, according to the Washington-based Center On Education Policy,...
JACK JENNINGS

It was sold out yesterday, ... I actually went to the grocery store and bought frozen apple pie (bec...
PAUL JENNINGS

You bite the hand that feeds, Speedy said.
Humans don't like that.
They view it as a sign ...
PATRICK JENNINGS

I had no idea what humans were capable of. I heard they were crafty, but how are they able to do suc...
PATRICK JENNINGS

My blood was boiling, which is not a good thing for a coldblood.
Dracula was dead. Rex was dyin...
PATRICK JENNINGS

We are at a critical threshold. We are going to make decisions within the next year that are either ...
BILL JENNINGS

The delta can't be fixed unless we fix the San Joaquin -- and the San Joaquin can't be fixed unless ...
BILL JENNINGS

This is a watery landfill. You can see there's no pride in the river here.
BILL JENNINGS

The San Joaquin is a hard-working river. But it can't continue to take the abuse.
BILL JENNINGS

We don't know how many delta smelt they're killing at the pumps, but they essentially evacuate the s...
BILL JENNINGS

The (department) and the Department of Fish and Game have essentially ignored the requirements of th...
BILL JENNINGS

They have just fundamentally blown off CESA.
BILL JENNINGS

It's a historic decision. The state board, having been reasonable for 25 years, in exasperation deci...
BILL JENNINGS

The water boards can elect to protect our waterways or to continue shielding farmers from the law. T...
BILL JENNINGS

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.

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