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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
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Littlefield
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Waylon Arnold Jennings
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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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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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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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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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I might be an endangered species.
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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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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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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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Don't you be so nice to me I fall in love so easily.
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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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There's always one more way to do something-- your way.
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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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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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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby's arms, hell is when my baby's not here.
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.
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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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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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