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.
GEORGE JONESThere, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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 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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Don’t let the ‘business’ change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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 sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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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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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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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.
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Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
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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 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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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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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.
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