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Mainly what I learned from Buddy… was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn’t have any barriers to it.

Waylon Jennings

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The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.
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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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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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And you’d sure better not be doing it because it’s a way to make a living, ’cause that ain’t always going to be easy. You got to believe it, believe in the music. You got to mean it.
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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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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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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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
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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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One night of love don’t make up for six nights alone. But I’d rather have one than none Lord, cause I’m flesh and bone.
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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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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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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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This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
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I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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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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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain’t it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what’s right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.
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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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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I’ve drunker been. Or is it drunker than I’ve ever been?
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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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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