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.
GEORGE JONESI 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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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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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’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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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 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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