I could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.
WAYLON JENNINGSThe 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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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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I ain’t got no reverse. I’ve learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.
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To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.
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I don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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Nobody knows I’m Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I’ve got the perfect disguise.
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Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
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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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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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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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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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There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
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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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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
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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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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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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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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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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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I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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