So I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
WAYLON JENNINGSYou 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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Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
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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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If you see me getting smaller, I’m leaving, don’t be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don’t worry, and no hurry, I’ve got the right to disappear.
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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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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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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
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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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I can’t walk, so I can’t go home. No need to talk, cause I’m all alone. If I stay here they’re gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
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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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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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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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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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