"One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones"

This quote by Waylon Jennings speaks with the power characteristics of the music industry in the 1960s. Jennings was a prominent figure in the outlaw nation movement, and his success was seen as a risk to the established country music market. Jennings was not getting scheduled as much as he desired, and he thought that the industry had control over who got awards and who offered records. He felt that the industry wanted to make money, however not from him or Willie Nelson, another prominent figure in the criminal nation motion. This quote speaks with the power of the music industry to manage who achieves success and who is not, and how this power can be utilized to suppress particular artists. Jennings' experience is a suggestion of the value of challenging the status quo and defending the acknowledgment of marginalized voices in the music market.