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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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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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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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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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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 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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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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