We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
GEORGE JONESI’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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I would have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.
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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow.
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Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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I want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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