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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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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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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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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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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What bothers me most is that I don't bother you.
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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 never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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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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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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Don't you be so nice to me I fall in love so easily.
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This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.
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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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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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I can't walk, so I can't go home. No need to talk, cause I'm all alone. If I stay here they're gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
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When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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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.
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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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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There's always one more way to do something-- your way.
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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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