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.
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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Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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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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One night of love don’t make up for six nights alone. But I’d rather have one than none Lord, cause I’m flesh and bone.
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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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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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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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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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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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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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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I’ve drunker been. Or is it drunker than I’ve ever been?
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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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I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
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