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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.

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
Texas
Waylon Arnold Jennings
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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.
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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can't pull it out?
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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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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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You've got to care about the music...You'd better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money. And you'd sure better not be doing it because it's a way to make a living, 'cause that ain't always going to be easy. You got to believe it, believe in the music. You got to mean it.
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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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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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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 ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.
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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.
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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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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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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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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
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Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love.
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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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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby's arms, hell is when my baby's not here.
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