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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.
Waylon Jennings
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Waylon Jennings
Age: 64 †
Born: 1937
Born: June 15
Died: 2002
Died: February 13
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Littlefield
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Waylon Arnold Jennings
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.
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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.
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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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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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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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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim. And yet his greatest desire was the simple warmth of love's fire, cause it's cold on the dark side of fame.
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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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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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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
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What bothers me most is that I don't bother you.
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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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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love.
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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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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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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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