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I ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Later In Life
Littles
Work Out
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If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I'd save on shoes alone.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Philosophy
Shoes
Thinking
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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.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Attitude
Barriers
Buddy
Talking
Taught
Mainly
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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.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Respect
Cash
Rebel
Redneck
Elvis
Johnny
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I can't walk, so I can't go home. No need to talk, cause I'm all alone. If I stay here they're gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Home
Alcohol
Drug
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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.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Fame
Rock And Roll
Rocks
Umpires
Judge
Deserves
Hall
Ritchie
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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.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Hollies
Rock And Roll
Rocks
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Blame
Drug
Helping
Complete
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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Baby
Dog
Soul
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Alive
Boys
Buddy
Guilty
Caused
Besides
Somehow
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Destiny
Earth
Mean
Thinking
Begin
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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Men
Order
Years
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Caught
Hats
Executive
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Those neon light nights, couldn't stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories. There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Fighting
Memories
Revenge
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Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Big Impact
Bigger
Impact
Starting
Time Business Know
Anybody
Time Business Real
Deal
Real Deal
Ritchie
Spent
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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.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Grieving
Leaving
Worry
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Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Bad Times
Great Person
Understood
Great Me Doing
Great Me Bad
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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. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Death
Buddy
Devastation
Losing
Loss
Short Time
Tragedy
Life Time Me
Dealt
Devastating
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And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Stealing
Old Country
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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.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Art
Song
Writing
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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim. And yet his greatest desire was the simple warmth of love's fire, cause it's cold on the dark side of fame.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Art
Dark
Song
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Kings
Albums
Cutting
Long
Long Time
Mountain
Perform
Cut
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Instrument
Ya
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who “play on sessions.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
People
Play
Voice
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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.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Bigs
Names
Records
Big Hit
Hit Record
Producer
Rca
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... 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.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Believe
Buddy
Last Time
Might
Reincarnation
Stuff
Time Music Believe
Upper
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
War
Civil War
England
Guy
Mansions
One Time
White
Time War History
Album
War Time History
Civil
Objective
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One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. 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.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Awards
Booked
Hit Record
Sold
Willie
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One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. 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.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Awards
Records
Want
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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, 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.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Country
Real
Thinking
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You've got to care about the music...You'd better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money. 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.
Waylon Jennings / Singer-Songwriter
Music
Money
Believe
Mean
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