I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
GEORGE JONESEverybody 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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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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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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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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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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