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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.

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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Country Musician
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Littlefield
Texas
Waylon Arnold Jennings
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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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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I might be an endangered species.
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Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.
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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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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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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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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones.
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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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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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If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I'd save on shoes alone.
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There's always one more way to do something-- your way.
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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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Is your head up your ass so far that you can't pull it out?
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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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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Don't you be so nice to me I fall in love so easily.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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