You’ve got to care about the music…You’d better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money.
WAYLON JENNINGSBut Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated 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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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
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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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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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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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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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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn’t seem right. You let them come home, America.
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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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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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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I’ve drunker been. Or is it drunker than I’ve ever been?
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Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
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