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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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Country Musician
Guitarist
Mandolinist
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Singer-Songwriter
Littlefield
Texas
Waylon Arnold Jennings
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You've got to care about the music...You'd better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money. And you'd sure better not be doing it because it's a way to make a living, 'cause that ain't always going to be easy. You got to believe it, believe in the music. You got to mean it.
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I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.
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We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain't it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.
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One night of love don't make up for six nights alone. But I'd rather have one than none Lord, cause I'm flesh and bone.
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Those neon light nights, couldn't stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories. There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.
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I say, Lord, do right be me, I'm tired of being lonesome, on'ry, and mean.
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I've drunker been. Or is it drunker than I've ever been?
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I could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now.
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I might be an endangered species.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who “play on sessions.
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He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what's right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.
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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones.
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If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I'd save on shoes alone.
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One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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