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A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get ’em the right kind of hat, and if anything’s wrong with their nose, if it’s a little crooked, it’s got to be straightened up.

George Jones

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 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
Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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Inside Love Real Stay True Voice
If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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Drink Drinking Memories Sadness Think
I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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Country Heart Music People Respond Sing
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
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
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
God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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Artist Bless Blue Boy Celebrity God Popular Shoes World
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
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
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
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
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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Always Out Shut Stop Waiting World
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
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
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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Couple Milion Copy Need Release Require Some
Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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Anybody Artist Country Gospel Love People
Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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Competing Country Even Gospel Modern New Problem Same Style Type
You can’t put this possum in a cage
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Cage Possum Puut
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
No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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Matter Sang Song 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
Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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Artist Couple Five Forget Four Nowadays Year
You never see yourself as others do but I’ve always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me.
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Country Format Hope Music never Others Proud Yourself
He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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Death Door Love Stop Today Wreath
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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Character Chemistry Drink Enough Maybe Other Problem

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