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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
Waylon Jennings
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Waylon Jennings
Age: 64 †
Born: 1937
Born: June 15
Died: 2002
Died: February 13
Actor
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Littlefield
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Waylon Arnold Jennings
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can't pull it out?
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The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn't happen until I did. It wasn't a real country sound, what I did. I've listened to it, and I think it was more a west coast rock thing, you know? But it fit. It was country, but it was my own interpretation of country.
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