To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.
WAYLON JENNINGSI don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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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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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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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’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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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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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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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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I say, Lord, do right be me, I’m tired of being lonesome, on’ry, and mean.
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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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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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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And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn’t want us to be the ones.
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I could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.
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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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