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I might be an endangered species.

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
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Littlefield
Texas
Waylon Arnold Jennings
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.
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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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The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women
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When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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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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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 men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.
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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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