Country music isn’t a guitar, it isn’t a banjo, it isn’t a melody, it isn’t a lyric. It’s a feeling.
WAYLON JENNINGSHighway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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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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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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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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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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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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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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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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What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
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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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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.
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When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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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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I’m just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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