Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
WAYLON JENNINGSAnd 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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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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It was all devastating. I’d never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn’t know where to put it in my life.
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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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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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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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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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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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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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If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I’d save on shoes alone.
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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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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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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’m a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that’s the way I feel about people who “play on sessions.
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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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