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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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
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Singer-Songwriter
Littlefield
Texas
Waylon Arnold Jennings
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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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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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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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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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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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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Is your head up your ass so far that you can't pull it out?
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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What bothers me most is that I don't bother you.
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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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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.
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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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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.
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There's always one more way to do something-- your way.
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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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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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