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Merle Haggard

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Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.


— Merle Haggard


#religion #faith

'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.


— Merle Haggard


#addicted #addictive #already #cause #easy

And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything.


— Merle Haggard


#anything #claim #couple #course #dna

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.


— Merle Haggard


#easier #feed #force #give #makes

95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want.


— Merle Haggard


#because #choice #distributors #seems #want

And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13.


— Merle Haggard


#children #girl #i #then #theresa

I've got two families.


— Merle Haggard


#got #i #two

At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?


— Merle Haggard


#bread #buy #half #i #know

Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.


— Merle Haggard


#diana #her #i #jazz #knocks

And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.


— Merle Haggard


#latino #like #music #reggae #some






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Did you know about Merle Haggard?

He married his current wife Theresa Ann Lane on September 11 1993. He was arrested for attempting to rob a Bakersfield tavern in 1957 and was sent to the San Quentin state prison for three years. It's always been my nature to fight the system.

Merle Ronald Haggard (born April 6 1937) is an American country music song writer singer guitarist fiddler and instrumentalist. Along with Buck Owens Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster and the unique mix with the traditional country steel guitar sound new vocal harmony styles in which the words are minimal and a rough edge not heard on the more poliMerle Haggardd Nashville Sound recordings of the same era.

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