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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.
Waylon Jennings
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Waylon Jennings
Age: 64 †
Born: 1937
Born: June 15
Died: 2002
Died: February 13
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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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If you see me getting smaller, I'm leaving, don't be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don't worry, and no hurry, I've got the right to disappear.
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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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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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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.
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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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Don't you be so nice to me I fall in love so easily.
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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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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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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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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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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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Those neon light nights, couldn't stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories. There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can't pull it out?
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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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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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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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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.
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