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What bothers me most is that I don't bother you.
Waylon Jennings
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Waylon Jennings
Age: 64 †
Born: 1937
Born: June 15
Died: 2002
Died: February 13
Actor
Composer
Country Musician
Guitarist
Mandolinist
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Singer-Songwriter
Littlefield
Texas
Waylon Arnold Jennings
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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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've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.
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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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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 could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now.
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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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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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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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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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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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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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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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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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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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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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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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Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
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