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.
WAYLON JENNINGSWhen you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
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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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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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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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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.
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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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I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.
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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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The only two things in life that make it worth livin’ / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women
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