I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
GEORGE JONESCountry 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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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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I just thank God I’m still here and the main thing is to try to get closer and closer to Him as much as I can so that I can treat my friends and my family the way they should be treated.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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