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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
Country
Banjo
Banjos
Lyric
Melody
Guitar
Feeling
Feelings

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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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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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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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I say, Lord, do right be me, I'm tired of being lonesome, on'ry, and mean.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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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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There's always one more way to do something-- your way.
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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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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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Don't you be so nice to me I fall in love so easily.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can't pull it out?
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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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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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones.
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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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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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