I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.
- Jerry Jeff Walker
Think, Famous, I Think, Sustain
Our audience is really upbeat. Likes to have a good time. They're not introverted or shy.
- Jerry Jeff Walker
Shy, Audience, Introverted, Upbeat
You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.
- Jerry Jeff Walker
Doing, My Own, Figure, Much Attention
I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have a career as much as I'm having an adventure with a guitar. I never liked the business way of doing it. You have to follow some sort of instinct.
- Jerry Jeff Walker
Career, Doing, Some, I Care
I always liked having a good time. I got into this business because I got fired from any job I ever had because I stayed out late playing music.
- Jerry Jeff Walker
Fired, Always, Having, Good Time
I'm a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it.
- Jerry Jeff Walker
Mountains, Some, Still, Farm
New Yorkers have their own way of speaking, their own tempo, and Texans are a lot like that. As much as you think Texas is one thing and New York is another, they're very much the same.
- Jerry Jeff Walker
Own, Another, Very, New Yorkers
'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.
- Jerry Jeff Walker
Purpose, Means, Known, Unknown
A lot of Texans go up to New York and stay there forever. If there are any two places with more individual characters, I don't know them.
- Jerry Jeff Walker
New, More, Individual, Texans
Nashville is the business center. They forget that the bottom line of it all is still the song.
- Jerry Jeff Walker
Song, Forget, Still, Bottom Line
Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is.
- Jerry Jeff Walker
Music, Play, Country, Country Music
There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my blessings by looking at what I have?' I'm pretty much an optimistic guy.
- Jerry Jeff Walker
Business, Thought, Pretty, Propensity
Texas is where I found my musical self.
- Jerry Jeff Walker
Self, Found, Musical, Texas
In the '60s, I thought golf was bourgeois, so I didn't play at all for 20 years.
- Jerry Jeff Walker
Thought, Play, Bourgeois, Golf
The only way to know how much is enough, is to do too much, and then back up.
- Jerry Jeff Walker
Enough, Back, Then, Too Much
Taking over our own business and running it ourselves has tied us even more to our fans.
- Jerry Jeff Walker
Business, Running, Over, Tied
In the '80s I started running, staying in shape.
- Jerry Jeff Walker
Running, Started, Staying, Shape
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