I 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.
GEORGE JONESLoneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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 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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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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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I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
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Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I’m an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I’ve got out there,
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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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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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