I can’t walk, so I can’t go home. No need to talk, cause I’m all alone. If I stay here they’re gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
WAYLON JENNINGSThe 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 say, Lord, do right be me, I’m tired of being lonesome, on’ry, and mean.
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He’s the biggest. He’s like an Elvis in this business, but no, he’s never been the rebel.
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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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Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
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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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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything 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 sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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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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 don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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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 never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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I could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.
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