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Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.

Merle Haggard

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Merle Haggard
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: April 6
Died: 2016
Died: April 6
Country Musician
Guitarist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Bakersfield
California
Merle Ronald Haggard
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When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.
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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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I probably wouldn't even be here now if it weren't for chiropractic
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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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If I had a choice, and there was a Y in the road, I would always take the one that was more fun as opposed to the one that might make me more money.
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There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.
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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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There's two kind of cherries, and two kind of fairies, and two kind of mothers I'm told.
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Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.
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And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.
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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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There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now.
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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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We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.
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I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.
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The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.
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I don't think there's ever been a friendly divorce.
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Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.
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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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