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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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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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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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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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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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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby's arms, hell is when my baby's not here.
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I might be an endangered species.
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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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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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Don't you be so nice to me I fall in love so easily.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame.
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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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Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.
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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 sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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There's always one more way to do something-- your way.
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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 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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