We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain’t it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?
WAYLON JENNINGSThat was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He’s the biggest. He’s like an Elvis in this business, but no, he’s never been the rebel.
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I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn’t know how, but somehow I’d caused it.
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Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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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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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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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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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn’t want us to be the ones.
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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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His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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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’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.
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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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