I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
WAYLON JENNINGSIf you see me getting smaller, I’m leaving, don’t be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don’t worry, and no hurry, I’ve got the right to disappear.
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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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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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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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
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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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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn’t know how, but somehow I’d caused it.
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I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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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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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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I might be an endangered species.
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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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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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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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