So I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
WAYLON JENNINGSAnd 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’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.
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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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Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England.
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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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Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.
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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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That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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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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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins’ name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn’t have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.
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