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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
Composer
Country Musician
Guitarist
Mandolinist
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Singer-Songwriter
Littlefield
Texas
Waylon Arnold Jennings
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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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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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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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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.
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Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.
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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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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Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame.
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This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.
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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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