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In the 80s I started running, staying in shape.
Jerry Jeff Walker / Singer-Songwriter
Running
Shapes
Staying
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In the '80s I started running, staying in shape.
Jerry Jeff Walker / Singer-Songwriter
Staying
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Living safe behind a wall, never tasting life at all.
Jerry Jeff Walker / Singer-Songwriter
Philosophy
Safe
Wall
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Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is.
Jerry Jeff Walker / Singer-Songwriter
Country Music
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Drinking in a honky tonk, just kicking hippies asses and raising hell.
Jerry Jeff Walker / Singer-Songwriter
Drinking
Hippie
Revenge
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The only way to know how much is enough, is to do too much, and then back up.
Jerry Jeff Walker / Singer-Songwriter
Enough
Too Much
Way
Back Up
How Much
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He's not responsible for what he's doing, cause his mother made him what he is.
Jerry Jeff Walker / Singer-Songwriter
Peace
Mother
Special
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In the '60s, I thought golf was bourgeois, so I didn't play at all for 20 years.
Jerry Jeff Walker / Singer-Songwriter
Bourgeois
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I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.
Jerry Jeff Walker / Singer-Songwriter
Success
Famous
Real
Thinking
Sustain
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If only you could pack up everything you love, and everyone who'd ever been your friend.
Jerry Jeff Walker / Singer-Songwriter
Friendship
Ifs
Packs
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Taking over our own business and running it ourselves has tied us even more to our fans.
Jerry Jeff Walker / Singer-Songwriter
Tied
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Our audience is really upbeat. Likes to have a good time. They're not introverted or shy.
Jerry Jeff Walker / Singer-Songwriter
Introverted
Likes
Shy
Upbeat
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Nashville is the business center. They forget that the bottom line of it all is still the song.
Jerry Jeff Walker / Singer-Songwriter
Bottom
Bottom Line
Nashville
Center
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You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.
Jerry Jeff Walker / Singer-Songwriter
Anyone Else
Much Attention
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A lot of Texans go up to New York and stay there forever. If there are any two places with more individual characters, I don't know them.
Jerry Jeff Walker / Singer-Songwriter
Texans
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I always liked having a good time. I got into this business because I got fired from any job I ever had because I stayed out late playing music.
Jerry Jeff Walker / Singer-Songwriter
Having A Good Time
Time Good Business
Fired
Time Business Good
Stayed
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'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.
Jerry Jeff Walker / Singer-Songwriter
Lost
Purpose
Unknown
Place
Taking
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New Yorkers have their own way of speaking, their own tempo, and Texans are a lot like that. As much as you think Texas is one thing and New York is another, they're very much the same.
Jerry Jeff Walker / Singer-Songwriter
Tempo
New Way Own
Texans
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There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my blessings by looking at what I have?' I'm pretty much an optimistic guy.
Jerry Jeff Walker / Singer-Songwriter
Propensity
Count
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I'm a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it.
Jerry Jeff Walker / Singer-Songwriter
Basketball
Grandfather
Texan
Me School High School
Farm
Summers
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I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have a career as much as I'm having an adventure with a guitar. I never liked the business way of doing it. You have to follow some sort of instinct.
Jerry Jeff Walker / Singer-Songwriter
Adventure
Instinct
Further
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