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 JENNINGSThey got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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There’s always one more way to do things and that’s your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.
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And yet his greatest desire was the simple warmth of love’s fire, cause it’s cold on the dark side of fame.
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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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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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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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I’m just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
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If you see me getting smaller, I’m leaving, don’t be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don’t worry, and no hurry, I’ve got the right to disappear.
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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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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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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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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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Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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