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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
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Littlefield
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Waylon Arnold Jennings
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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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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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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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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'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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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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When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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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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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 sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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There's always one more way to do something-- your way.
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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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What bothers me most is that I don't bother you.
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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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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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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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The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women
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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.
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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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