We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain’t it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?
WAYLON JENNINGSThe 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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When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.
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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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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 may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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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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Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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There’s always one more way to do things and that’s your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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I might be an endangered species.
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Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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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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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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