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	I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old or a year old or something like that.   
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	Ah, the Wrecking Crew! They played on everything that came out of L.A. Oh, that was a good band. You really enjoyed going to work. You played for everyone; it didn't matter what it was.   
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	With the TV shows, you get eight zillion people watching you. I was really surprised at the way everything went. I knew television was powerful, but that was just... wow.   
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	I don't miss television. It's too much hurry up and sit around, wait till they do this and do that, and get the lighting just right. I'd much rather go out on a stage anywhere and just play and sing for an hour.   
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	Roger Miller opened a lot of people's eyes to the possibilities of country music, and it's making more impact now because it's earthy material: stories and things that happen to everyday people. I call it 'people music.'   
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	I was out of control... I was a mess, but God has forgiven me.   
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	I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.   
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	I just wanted to do a music show, with the whole realm of music from Ella Fitzgerald to rock bands like Cream to Kenny Rogers. We had a lot of country, but we did every kind of music. The Monkees were on, and so was Johnny Cash.   
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	I don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country.   
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	I'll tell you, my dad played and sang, and it didn't take me long to figure out that playing a guitar was a whole lot better than getting ahold of a hoe handle or chopping cotton, man.   
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	Elvis was a great singer. He really was.   
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	A good song is a good song.   
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	Frankly, it is very hard to remember things from the 1970s.   
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	God saved me.   
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	I play guitar, and it's not a prop.   
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	I played on a lot of Sinatra sessions. He was simply awesome. He liked to laugh, and he could be one of the boys when he wanted. But he was also a very serious performer.   
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	I have been blessed. I really have.   
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	Perhaps I've found the secret for an unhappy private life. Every three years, I go and marry a girl who doesn't love me, and then she proceeds to take all my money.   
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	I've been every way there is to be.   
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	Life is too short not to enjoy it.   
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	We lived on the farm, and our mode of transportation was wagon and team. No electricity. I'm the seventh son of 12 kids - eight boys and four girls. Mom and Dad handled that very well. But I wanted to get out.   
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	I've been singing and playing the guitar ever since I can remember.   
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	I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.   
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	Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes.   
