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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
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Littlefield
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Waylon Arnold Jennings
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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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To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.
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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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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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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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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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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 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'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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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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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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I say, Lord, do right be me, I'm tired of being lonesome, on'ry, and mean.
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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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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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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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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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