I've always felt that blues rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.
Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
Heaven is laying in my sweet baby's arms hell is when my baby's not here.
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.
When I look at you girl I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.
You know I feel sorry for the young artists.
One night of love don't make up for six nights alone. But I'd rather have one than none Lord cause I'm flesh and bone.
Was an American archetype the bad guy with the big heart.
I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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.
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.
When you're down in Texas Bob Wills is still the king.
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.
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.
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.
Take your tongue out of my mouth I'm kissing you good-bye.
I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
Hitting the bottle again ever than I've drunker been. Or is it drunker than I've ever been?
What bothers me most is that I don't bother you.
I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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.
Don't you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.
I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane.
To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.
Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love.
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.
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.
Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle don't mean that I'm tame.
I say Lord do right be me I'm tired of being lonesome on'ry and mean.
I'm just a man no more or no less. Bad as the worst good as the best.
Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain't it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?
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.
If you have the courage and you have the heart that hero just might be you.
This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
There's always one more way to do something-- your way.
Nobody knows I'm Elvis nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries I've got the perfect disguise.
Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.
Did ole Hank really do it this way?
But you know the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
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.
I might be an endangered species.
This is getting funny but there ain't nobody laughing.
Is your head up your ass so far that you can't pull it out?
I could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now.
The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women
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?
Finally my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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.
If we all could sound like we wanted to we'd all sound like George Jones
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.
They got me for possession of something that was long long gone.
Honesty is something you can't wear out.
The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
Heroes put to the test keeping a promise doing their best.
He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what's right or wrong he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.
There's always one more way to do things and that's your way and you have a right to try it at least once.
I'm old and crazy but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.
So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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.