Merle Haggard

Jimmy Rogers, the same thing, you know, and so I felt it was just as necessary to become a songwriter as it was to try to learn to play the guitar or, you know, it was certainly a tool that most people, I think, in the business would like to be a singer-songwriter if they could be because it It is in some way your retirement.

Jimmy Rogers, the same thing, you know, and so I felt it was just as necessary to become a songwriter as it was to try to learn to play the guitar or, you know, it was certainly a tool that most people, I think, in the business would like to be a singer-songwriter if they could be because it It is in some way your retirement.

Jimmy Rogers, the same thing, you know, and so I felt it was just as necessary to become a songwriter as it was to try to learn to play the guitar or, you know, it was certainly a tool that most people, I think, in the business would like to be a singer-songwriter if they could be because it It is in some way your retirement.

You can have a great career, and if you don't write songs or have a publishing company or something to lean back on when it's all over, it's a pretty hard drop back to reality. Once you've learned to live under the conditions I've learned to live on, you better have yourself a publishing company or I'll have to go back to being an outlaw.

You can have a great career, and if you don't write songs or have a publishing company or something to lean back on when it's all over, it's a pretty hard drop back to reality. Once you've learned to live under the conditions I've learned to live on, you better have yourself a publishing company or I'll have to go back to being an outlaw.

You can have a great career, and if you don't write songs or have a publishing company or something to lean back on when it's all over, it's a pretty hard drop back to reality. Once you've learned to live under the conditions I've learned to live on, you better have yourself a publishing company or I'll have to go back to being an outlaw.

Well, I really didn't realize what method to take at first. I must have wrote maybe 1,500 songs that weren't any good, or at least I never kept them, and finally... With a lot of help and a lot of people who had written hit songs, who I'd become friends with, such as Fuzzy Owen, who became my personal manager. He was a songwriter, and he taught me how to write songs.

Well, I really didn't realize what method to take at first. I must have wrote maybe 1,500 songs that weren't any good, or at least I never kept them, and finally... With a lot of help and a lot of people who had written hit songs, who I'd become friends with, such as Fuzzy Owen, who became my personal manager. He was a songwriter, and he taught me how to write songs.

Well, I really didn't realize what method to take at first. I must have wrote maybe 1,500 songs that weren't any good, or at least I never kept them, and finally... With a lot of help and a lot of people who had written hit songs, who I'd become friends with, such as Fuzzy Owen, who became my personal manager. He was a songwriter, and he taught me how to write songs.

Finally, I wrote one that was worth keeping. I think I've written about 300 keepers or so, maybe 400.

Finally, I wrote one that was worth keeping. I think I've written about 300 keepers or so, maybe 400.

Finally, I wrote one that was worth keeping. I think I've written about 300 keepers or so, maybe 400.

Yeah, it was sort of a rock and roll song, an Elvis-type rock and roll thing called If You Want to Be My Woman. And Glen Campbell opened his shows with it for years, and I still do the song. I wrote it when I was about 14. But I didn't keep very many. That was probably one out of the 1,500 that got kept.

Yeah, it was sort of a rock and roll song, an Elvis-type rock and roll thing called If You Want to Be My Woman. And Glen Campbell opened his shows with it for years, and I still do the song. I wrote it when I was about 14. But I didn't keep very many. That was probably one out of the 1,500 that got kept.

Yeah, it was sort of a rock and roll song, an Elvis-type rock and roll thing called If You Want to Be My Woman. And Glen Campbell opened his shows with it for years, and I still do the song. I wrote it when I was about 14. But I didn't keep very many. That was probably one out of the 1,500 that got kept.

And you keep pushing me back. Something about... I didn't own the money that I earned, but you refused to give me something equal in return.

And you keep pushing me back. Something about... I didn't own the money that I earned, but you refused to give me something equal in return.

And you keep pushing me back. Something about... I didn't own the money that I earned, but you refused to give me something equal in return.

No, I... Very best, I... I counted on extra money, as I was saying, you know, like, you know, maybe a hobby. You know, I figured I was going to have to have some of the means of employment, you know, support.

No, I... Very best, I... I counted on extra money, as I was saying, you know, like, you know, maybe a hobby. You know, I figured I was going to have to have some of the means of employment, you know, support.