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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.

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
Music
Banjo
Country
Banjos
Lyric
Melody
Guitar
Feeling
Feelings

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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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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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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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Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.
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What bothers me most is that I don't bother you.
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I might be an endangered species.
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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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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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When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.
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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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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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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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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 rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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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 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.
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