Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
GEORGE JONESI hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.
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Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.
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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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 didn’t make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he’d say, “Get up and sing me some songs.”
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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
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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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get ’em the right kind of hat, and if anything’s wrong with their nose, if it’s a little crooked, it’s got to be straightened up.
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Some of them don’t have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don’t sell two million copies, you’re gone, you’re out of here.
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I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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I love what I’ve done and I just can’t stand to see what they’re doing to it. But I’ve learned to live with it because that’s what they’ve done. They’ve come in with the modern sounds. I call it modern pop. It’s not country anymore.
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You never see yourself as others do but I’ve always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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