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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
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Singer-Songwriter
Littlefield
Texas
Waylon Arnold Jennings
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Country
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Banjos
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Guitar
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Feelings
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Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love.
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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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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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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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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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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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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 didn't aim at anything except good music.
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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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I can't walk, so I can't go home. No need to talk, cause I'm all alone. If I stay here they're gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
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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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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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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 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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You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.
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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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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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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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