Lately I’ve heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I’ve been idle, don’t mean that I’m tame.
WAYLON JENNINGSI 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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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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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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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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There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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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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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.
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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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Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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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 was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
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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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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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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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