We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain’t it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?
WAYLON JENNINGSLadies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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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 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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That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for 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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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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If you see me getting smaller, I’m leaving, don’t be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don’t worry, and no hurry, I’ve got the right to disappear.
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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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Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
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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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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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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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I might be an endangered species.
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I’m a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that’s the way I feel about people who “play on sessions.
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The only two things in life that make it worth livin’ / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women
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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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You’ve got to care about the music…You’d better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money.
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I’m just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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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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I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn’t know how, but somehow I’d caused 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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What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
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