You’ve got to care about the music…You’d better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money.
WAYLON JENNINGSThere is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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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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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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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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I’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.
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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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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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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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That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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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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I’m a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that’s the way I feel about people who “play on sessions.
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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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The 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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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn’t seem right. You let them come home, America.
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We 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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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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