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.
WAYLON JENNINGSBut Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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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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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.
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Now, I don’t know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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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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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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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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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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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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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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The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn’t happen until I did. It wasn’t a real country sound.
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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’m old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.
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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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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
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