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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones.

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Waylon Jennings
Age: 64 †
Born: 1937
Born: June 15
Died: 2002
Died: February 13
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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 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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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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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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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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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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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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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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This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.
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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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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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Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.
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So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.
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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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I might be an endangered species.
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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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