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George Jones

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
A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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Engine Glistening Glow Horsepower Key Rotary Seat Ten Under
There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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Enough Longer Inspirational Life Question Wise
Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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Alcoholic Character Drinking Drunk Lazy Maybe Other Some Voluntary
I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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Always Break Field Gospel Job Living Made Music Someway
I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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Eat Rather Sad Sing Song
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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Artist Completely Country Gospel Modern Music Order People Style Young
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
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.
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Artist Crook Fix Hat Jeans Kind Lighten Nose Right Straightened Teeth
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
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
Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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Country Directly High Life Low Music Relate Simply Something Speak
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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Anymore Country Done Learn Love Modern Pop Sound Stand
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
Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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Anybody Artist Country Gospel Love People
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
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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Fan Lord Out Record Road Still There Want Work
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 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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Again Drunk Head Home Honk Lay Social Taboo
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
Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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Choice Lessened Loneliness Lonely
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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Country Difference Drunk Father Night Say Sing Song Time
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
I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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Best Esteem Low Self Practice Wrong
There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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Country Everything Love Missing People Something Sound
There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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Lost Melody Nothing Prettier Song World

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