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.
WAYLON JENNINGSMainly 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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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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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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Now, I don’t know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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So I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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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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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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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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You’ve got to care about the music…You’d better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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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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