I’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.
WAYLON JENNINGSThis is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
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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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I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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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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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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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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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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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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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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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 say, Lord, do right be me, I’m tired of being lonesome, on’ry, and mean.
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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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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.
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