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No, it's not love, but it's not bad.

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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Love

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Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.
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We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee, we don't take trips on LSD. We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street, we like living right and free.
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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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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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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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I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.
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I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.
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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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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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I probably wouldn't even be here now if it weren't for chiropractic
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Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind.
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I've got two families.
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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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At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?
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Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material.
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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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The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.
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The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle slowly take command.
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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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Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.
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