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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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Littlefield
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Waylon Arnold Jennings
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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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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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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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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 didn't aim at anything except good music.
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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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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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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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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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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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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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I might be an endangered species.
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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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