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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
Waylon Jennings
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Waylon Jennings
Age: 64 †
Born: 1937
Born: June 15
Died: 2002
Died: February 13
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Singer-Songwriter
Littlefield
Texas
Waylon Arnold Jennings
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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 love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
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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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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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I'm old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.
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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim. And yet his greatest desire was the simple warmth of love's fire, cause it's cold on the dark side of fame.
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You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.
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There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.
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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.
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Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love.
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Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.
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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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If you see me getting smaller, I'm leaving, don't be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don't worry, and no hurry, I've got the right to disappear.
Waylon Jennings
If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones.
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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.
Waylon Jennings
Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
Waylon Jennings
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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