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Waylon Jennings

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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Art Country Die Drug Good Hank Make Money People Person Some Song Sudden Writing
I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
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Cutting King Long More Mountain Want Well
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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Award Book Control One Over Record Sold Thing Want
Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
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Anybody Melody Risk Take Trying
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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Biggest Cash Country Love People Person Rebel Redneck Respect
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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Alive Boy Buddy Cause Dead Reason Somehow
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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Believe Better Doing Go Living Make Mena Music Sure Way
Mainly what I learned from Buddy… was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn’t have any barriers to it.
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Attitude Buddy Learn Mainly Talking Taught
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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Buddy Holy Learn Play Rock Roll Spirit Taught Work
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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Good Later Learn Life Little Out Prety Work
There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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Always More Something Way
The only two things in life that make it worth livin’ / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women
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Feel Guitar Life Living Make Things Two Women Worth
If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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Country People Person Sound Want
Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
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All Back Commit Mayhem Men Murder Order Sport Street Year
Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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Ass Friendship Full Head Out Up
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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Coast Country Interpretation Know Listen More Sound Think West

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