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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
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Waylon Arnold Jennings
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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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There's always one more way to do something-- your way.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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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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Did ole Hank really do it this 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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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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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones.
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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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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 say, Lord, do right be me, I'm tired of being lonesome, on'ry, and mean.
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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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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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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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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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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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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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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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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.
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