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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.

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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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 could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now.
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There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.
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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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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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One night of love don't make up for six nights alone. But I'd rather have one than none Lord, cause I'm flesh and bone.
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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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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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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 villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
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Don't you be so nice to me I fall in love so easily.
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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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Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
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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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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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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
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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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