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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
Music
Good
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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. "
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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. "
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" In the '60s, I thought golf was bourgeois, so I didn't play at all for 20 years. "
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" Our audience is really upbeat. Likes to have a good time. They're not introverted or shy. "
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" Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is. "
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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. "
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" In the '80s I started running, staying in shape. "
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" Taking over our own business and running it ourselves has tied us even more to our fans. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" Texas is where I found my musical self. "
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