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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.

George Jones

I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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Always Break Field Gospel Job Living Made Music Someway
Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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Country Directly High Life Low Music Relate Simply Something Speak
You can’t put this possum in a cage
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Cage Possum Puut
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
A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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Engine Glistening Glow Horsepower Key Rotary Seat Ten Under
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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Common Country Man Music Real Simple Speak
He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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Death Door Love Stop Today Wreath
It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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Beyond Goes Love Misuse Money Much People Something
Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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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Enough Mind People Sing Special Yea
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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Artist Country Hear Label More Radio Record Rock Some
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
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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Half Hour Liquor might More Store Taken
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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Artist Completely Country Gospel Modern Music Order People Style Young
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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Break Field Lost Love Naturally never Offer Other Road
The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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Different Forgiven Other Saint Sinner

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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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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