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Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.
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
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Merle Ronald Haggard
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Heaven knows that alcohol is the worst thing in the world, but it's debatable whether cocaine is worse than caffeine or whether it's the same thing and they just changed the name.
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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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'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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Stop rolling down hill like a snow ball headed for hell.
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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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I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.
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I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.
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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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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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At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?
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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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I've always known that I was a gifted person. ... I've always felt like I would be punished, severely, if I didn't continue to make use of that gift. It's very important that you don't let the muscle get flabby. It's really hard, as an old human being, to press as much weight as you pressed when you were a kid.
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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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I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.
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I probably wouldn't even be here now if it weren't for chiropractic
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I've got two families.
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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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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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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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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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