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"So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be."
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"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."
Artist
"So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be."
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"I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane."
May
"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."
Boys
"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."
Love
"Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records."
Management
"You know, I feel sorry for the young artists."
Artist
"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."
Work
"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."
Time
"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."
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"The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it."
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"The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers."
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"But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in."
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"Everything popular is wrong."
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"I don't use the twang bar anymore. It's become too popular."
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"So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be."
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"I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick."
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"I was surprised that the TV series was popular itself, but after that it went on to become more popular over the years and thus it seemed eventually that they would turn it into a movie."
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"I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song."
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"I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me."
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