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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.
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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By the time you get close to the answers, it's nearly all over.
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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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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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It makes my wife mad, you know, she wants me to stay home all the time. But its what I've done all my life and I think when I quit doing it I'll probably go away pretty quick.
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At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?
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We're turning into the society that is accepting the force-feed. I don't quite understand why we're going for the things we're going for. There's no process of elimination anymore in music. They have these grooming schools, these things, and they're turning out these clones, and the music is sounding so refined that it's not even interesting.
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