Nashville is the business center. They forget that the bottom line of it all is still the song. – Jerry Jeff Walker
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
Our audience is really upbeat. Likes to have a good time. They’re not introverted or shy. – Jerry Jeff Walker
I think it’s real easy to be famous these days; it’s not real easy to sustain success. – Jerry Jeff Walker
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
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
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
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
‘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
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
Taking over our own business and running it ourselves has tied us even more to our fans. – Jerry Jeff Walker
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
