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Merle Haggard
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: April 6
Died: 2016
Died: April 6
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Guitarist
Recording Artist
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Singer-Songwriter
Bakersfield
California
Merle Ronald Haggard
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The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.
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HAG Records, is a company that I've owned. I've had a couple of gospel releases on it. We developed a pretty good distribution setup there and we do have something to use in case they don't want to sign us.
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We're turning into the society that is accepting the force-feed. I don't quite understand why we're going for the things we're going for. There's no process of elimination anymore in music. They have these grooming schools, these things, and they're turning out these clones, and the music is sounding so refined that it's not even interesting.
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'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.
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Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried.
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It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true I was raised in a freight car.
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In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.
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Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.
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The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.
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Hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me. I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be.
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The Captain just gave us our orders, and Mom we must carry them through. I'll finish this letter first chance I get, but for now I'll just say I love you.
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It makes my wife mad, you know, she wants me to stay home all the time. But its what I've done all my life and I think when I quit doing it I'll probably go away pretty quick.
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We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope.
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I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.
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Women are God's last creation. You suppose he's saying, What should I do to follow this? Well, it's really a head -scratcher. I think women are absolutely wonderful. I think this world is going to be governed by women.
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Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people it's important to me that I play good.
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I've got two families.
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When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.
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Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.
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My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.
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