I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
WAYLON JENNINGSYou’ve got to care about the music…You’d better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money.
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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I’m just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
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I’m old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.
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And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn’t want us to be the ones.
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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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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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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I’d save on shoes alone.
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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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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.
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Now, I don’t know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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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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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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