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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.

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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Steinbeck

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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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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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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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The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.
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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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No, it's not love, but it's not bad.
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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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And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.
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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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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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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.
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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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Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.
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By the time you get close to the answers, it's nearly all over.
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I've got two families.
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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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Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.
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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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I probably wouldn't even be here now if it weren't for chiropractic
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I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.
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