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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
Composer
Country Musician
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Littlefield
Texas
Waylon Arnold Jennings
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American
Bigs
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The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.
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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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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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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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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Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
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If you see me getting smaller, I'm leaving, don't be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don't worry, and no hurry, I've got the right to disappear.
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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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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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The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women
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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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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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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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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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Don't you be so nice to me I fall in love so easily.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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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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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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He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what's right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.
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