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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.
Waylon Jennings
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Waylon Jennings
Age: 64 †
Born: 1937
Born: June 15
Died: 2002
Died: February 13
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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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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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Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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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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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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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.
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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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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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Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.
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One night of love don't make up for six nights alone. But I'd rather have one than none Lord, cause I'm flesh and bone.
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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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