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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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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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What bothers me most is that I don't bother you.
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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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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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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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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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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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I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can't pull it out?
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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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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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