Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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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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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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He’s the biggest. He’s like an Elvis in this business, but no, he’s never been the rebel.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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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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Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
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I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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I might be an endangered species.
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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I’m just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
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That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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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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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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The only two things in life that make it worth livin’ / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women
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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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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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The 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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When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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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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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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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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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
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