When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
WAYLON JENNINGSWe 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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Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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You 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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I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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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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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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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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He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what’s right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.
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The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.
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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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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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I might be an endangered species.
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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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