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There's always one more way to do something-- your way.

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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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I've drunker been. Or is it drunker than I've ever been?
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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 say, Lord, do right be me, I'm tired of being lonesome, on'ry, and mean.
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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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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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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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