Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
GEORGE JONESAfter 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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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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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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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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