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.
WAYLON JENNINGSTo me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.
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He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what’s right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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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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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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I’m just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
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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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Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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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 was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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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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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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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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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 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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