Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
GEORGE JONESCountry 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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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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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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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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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 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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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