If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
GEORGE JONESI 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 you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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 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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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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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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