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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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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Littlefield
Texas
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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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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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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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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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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 just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
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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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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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