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.
WAYLON JENNINGSYou know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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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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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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I’m old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.
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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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I 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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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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The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.
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One night of love don’t make up for six nights alone. But I’d rather have one than none Lord, cause I’m flesh and bone.
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I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I’m really about.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
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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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So I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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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 was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
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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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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England.
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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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I say, Lord, do right be me, I’m tired of being lonesome, on’ry, and mean.
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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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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I’ve drunker been. Or is it drunker than I’ve ever been?
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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