Elvis was a way bigger influence than Waylon Jennings, but you don't wanna tell people, 'I never really listened to Waylon.'
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business.
When you listen to radio and hear the same 20 or 25 songs, you start hunting down your CD's. Waylon Jennings' records were always around to listen to.
Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.
I was an original Elvis fan. He was the voice of my generation. I was listening to him on the radio when he released his great Sun records with Scotty Moore on electric guitar and Bill Black on bass.
Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.
Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.
Each kind of generation of bands forgets how they got here. Waylon Jennings came out and they're like, 'That's not Patsy Cline.' And everyone panicked, like, 'I don't know what happened to country music, but this isn't it.'
Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.
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