American - Musician | March 16, 1942 -
The only way to know how much is enough, is to do too much, and then back up.
Jerry Jeff Walker
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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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Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is.
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I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.
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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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Texas is where I found my musical self.
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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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In the '80s I started running, staying in shape.
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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.
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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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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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