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.
WAYLON JENNINGSBesides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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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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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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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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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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What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.
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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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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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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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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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