All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
GEORGE JONESI’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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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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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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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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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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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
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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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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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 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’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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