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.
WAYLON JENNINGSI 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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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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I’m old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.
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I might be an endangered species.
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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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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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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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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.
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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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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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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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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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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 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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