Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
GEORGE JONESI’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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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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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 took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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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’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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