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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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Singer-Songwriter
Littlefield
Texas
Waylon Arnold Jennings
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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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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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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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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 didn't aim at anything except good music.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who “play on sessions.
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.
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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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Don't you be so nice to me I fall in love so easily.
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Honesty is something you can't wear 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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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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You've got to care about the music...You'd better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money. And you'd sure better not be doing it because it's a way to make a living, 'cause that ain't always going to be easy. You got to believe it, believe in the music. You got to mean it.
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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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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'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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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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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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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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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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