I’m old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.
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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When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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It was all devastating. I’d never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn’t know where to put it in my life.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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We 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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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.
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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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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 was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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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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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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His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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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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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
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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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