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" A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on. "
Done
You
Good
" 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. "
Down
Everything
You
" 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. "
Big
Impact
Know
" 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. "
Some
Guilty
Alive
" 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. "
Loved
Time
Music
" 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. "
People
Music
Know
" But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us. "
Know
System
You
" 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. "
Hats
System
Things
" Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that. "
Anything
About
Anyway
" Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks. "
Chance
Afraid
Risks
" Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records. "
Manager
Got
Finally
" Honesty is something you can't wear out. "
Out
You
Wear
" I didn't aim at anything except good music. "
Aim
Music
Good
" 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. "
Never
Love
Business
" I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane. "
Insane
Crazy
Keeps
" 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. "
You
Think
Own
" I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band. "
Never
Good
Problem
" 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. "
Time
Short
Losing
" 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. "
Mountain
People
Time
" 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. "
Great
Doing
Me
" 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. "
Me
Loved
He
" 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. "
World
Rock
Know
" 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. "
Where
Blame
Help
" 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. "
Over
Want
Money
" So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be. "
Wanted
System
Here
" 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. "
Over
History
White
" You know, I feel sorry for the young artists. "
Know
You
Young
" 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. "
You
Know
Name
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