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.
WAYLON JENNINGSI mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
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I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I’m really about.
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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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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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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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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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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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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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Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.
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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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There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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