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Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise.

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
Elvis
Disguise
Tries
Nobody
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Trying

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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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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I've drunker been. Or is it drunker than I've ever been?
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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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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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This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.
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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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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby's arms, hell is when my baby's not here.
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When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.
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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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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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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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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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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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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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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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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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