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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
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Bakersfield
California
Merle Ronald Haggard
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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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It's a long way from Graceland across Jordan to the Promised Land, but Jesus finally came to lead him home.
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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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'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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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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We're bar room buddies and we're the best kind, nobody messes with that friend of mine. Chug-a-lug-a-lug-a-lugga, bar room buddy of mine.
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Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.
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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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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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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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Keep your opinions to yourself. I think it's important that I stay neutral on politics and remain hard to understand. I don't want to be pigeonholed as conservative, liberal, independent or anything. I back the man for the things the man believes in, not whether it says R or D down there beside his name.
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Stop rolling down hill like a snow ball headed for hell.
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Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind.
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Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.
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I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, a place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse and white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all.
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The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.
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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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At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?
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