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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.

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
Texas
Waylon Arnold Jennings
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I might be an endangered species.
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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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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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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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Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise.
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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I ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.
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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby's arms, hell is when my baby's not here.
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The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women
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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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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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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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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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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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