Billy Joe Shaver

Person · Open Library

Works

1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1939-08-16

Active to

2020-10-28

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Billy Joe Shaver (born in Corsicana, TX, on 16 August 1939; died 28 October 2020) was an American Texas country music singer and songwriter. Shaver's 1973 album 'Old Five and Dimers Like Me' is a classic in the outlaw country genre. Shaver was raised by his mother, Victory Watson Shaver, his father Virgil having left the family before Shaver was born. Until he was 12, he spent a great deal of time with his grandmother in Corsicana so that his mother could work in Waco. <a href="https://www.last

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. PLS-SEM: Indeed a Silver Bullet

   · 2011 · cited 15,782x

2. Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function

   · 1963 · cited 14,005x

3. The Sequence of the Human Genome

   · 2001 · cited 10,176x

4. Superoxide Dismutase

   · 1969 · cited 10,012x

5. NIA‐AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer's disease

   · 2018 · cited 9,245x

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Quotes

• “Most of the things I write are things that are personal to me. I realized that that's the only way to really be honest. If you go writing about someone else you're just guessing at it.”
• “I think maybe I was born to be a songwriter. It's quite a comfort. I wrote most of my songs to stay alive, the rest to get back in the house.”
• “I'm a serious guy, and hungry, too.”
• “I churched it and churched it. I got born again, slowly. I've slid back several times, but it seemed like it don't matter. God will give you seven times 70 a chance. I've pushed it to the limit a time or two.”
• “I've been in trouble most of my life. No stealing or anything like that, just fights. It's all fights.”
• “Hopefully things will work out where we become friends enough so that he gives me back my bullet.”

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