Lately I’ve heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I’ve been idle, don’t mean that I’m tame.
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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Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.
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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
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Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.
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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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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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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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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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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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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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Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
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When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.
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