I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
WAYLON JENNINGSFinally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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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.
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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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If you see me getting smaller, I’m leaving, don’t be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don’t worry, and no hurry, I’ve got the right to disappear.
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Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
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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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I don’t believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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Lately I’ve heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I’ve been idle, don’t mean that I’m tame.
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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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 say, Lord, do right be me, I’m tired of being lonesome, on’ry, and mean.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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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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