You’ve got to care about the music…You’d better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money.
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 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 sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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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I don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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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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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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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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The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn’t happen until I did. It wasn’t a real country sound.
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I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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I might be an endangered species.
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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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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
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