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I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.

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
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Littlefield
Texas
Waylon Arnold Jennings
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The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.
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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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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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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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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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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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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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He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what's right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.
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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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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain't it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?
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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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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones.
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Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame.
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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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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 sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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