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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.

George Jones

After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, ‘Lord, please give me a hit.’ I want one so bad.
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Bad Couple Giving Hit Lord Pray Record Want Year
Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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Alcoholic Character Drinking Drunk Lazy Maybe Other Some Voluntary
We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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Desire Need Result Sang Sing Want
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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Country Difference Drunk Father Night Say Sing Song Time
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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Continue Each Everything Fan One Say Support Thank Year You
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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Closer Friend God Just Manin Thank Thing Treat Trying Way
Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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Choice Lessened Loneliness Lonely
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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Different Measure People Philosophy Success Way Wrong
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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Good Outsell Sing Somebody Song Version
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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Business Country Everybody Men Music Old Stuck Stuff Traditionalist
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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Anymore Country Done Learn Love Modern Pop Sound Stand
There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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Engine Gleaming Glow Half Horse Key Seat Taken Ten
There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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Country Everything Love Missing People Something Sound
I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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Eat Rather Sad Sing Song
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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Dream Love Romantic Walk World You

If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.

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