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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.

George Jones

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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Always Business Change Fake Fan Love Response Singer Tell
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 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
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
God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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Artist Bless Blue Boy Celebrity God Popular Shoes World
We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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Desire Need Result Sang Sing Want
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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Again Drunk Head Home Honk Lay Social Taboo
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
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
Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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Inside Love Real Stay True Voice
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 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
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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Fan Lord Out Record Road Still There Want Work
I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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Eat Rather Sad Sing Song
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 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’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.

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