You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
WAYLON JENNINGSCountry music isn’t a guitar, it isn’t a banjo, it isn’t a melody, it isn’t a lyric. It’s a feeling.
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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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Country music isn’t a guitar, it isn’t a banjo, it isn’t a melody, it isn’t a lyric. It’s a feeling.
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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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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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It was all devastating. I’d never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn’t know where to put it in my life.
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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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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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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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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.
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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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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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I’m just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
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