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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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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Singer-Songwriter
Littlefield
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Waylon Arnold Jennings
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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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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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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I can't walk, so I can't go home. No need to talk, cause I'm all alone. If I stay here they're gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
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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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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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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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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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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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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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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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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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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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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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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.
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I say, Lord, do right be me, I'm tired of being lonesome, on'ry, and mean.
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