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.
WAYLON JENNINGSWe got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain’t it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?
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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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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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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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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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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
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I say, Lord, do right be me, I’m tired of being lonesome, on’ry, and mean.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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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 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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