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I've got one young family by the first wife, with four children.
~Merle Haggard


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When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.
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And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.
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I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.
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It makes my wife mad, you know, she wants me to stay home all the time. But its what I've done all my life and I think when I quit doing it I'll probably go away pretty quick.
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There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now.
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I haven't had any problems with my back since I got the foot surgery.
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And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13.
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It's been said that Bill Gates has come up with something that'll be released in December that's gonna put a lid on counterfeiting. If that's a fact then it's really interesting to own your own product - with all the potential methods of downloading.
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My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.
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Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.
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No, I had a back injury early on in my life.
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Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material.
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HAG Records, is a company that I've owned. I've had a couple of gospel releases on it. We developed a pretty good distribution setup there and we do have something to use in case they don't want to sign us.
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'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.
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The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.
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At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?
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In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.
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I've got two families.
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My second wife Bonnie Owens and I worked together after we divorced for a period of maybe 20 years. And I managed to stay friends with another wife. And then there's one that I don't mess with. Everybody's got one of those.
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I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.
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When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.
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95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want.
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And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything.
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Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now!
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I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Really some pretty girls, but I don't know about the music.
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It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.
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They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight.
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It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.
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Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.
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I think I'm most proud of my family right now. I'm more into that then I've ever been. It also gives a new area to draw from in creativity with my songs.
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There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.
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I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.
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