I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
WAYLON JENNINGSThe only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn’t happen until I did. It wasn’t a real country sound.
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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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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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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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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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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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I could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.
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I’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I’ve drunker been. Or is it drunker than I’ve ever been?
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What I did. I’ve listened to it, and I think it was more a west coast rock thing, you know? But it fit. It was country, but it was my own interpretation of country.
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I can’t walk, so I can’t go home. No need to talk, cause I’m all alone. If I stay here they’re gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
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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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Nobody knows I’m Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I’ve got the perfect disguise.
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