I might be an endangered species.
WAYLON JENNINGSI 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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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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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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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 didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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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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Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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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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That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
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We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain’t it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?
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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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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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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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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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