There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
GEORGE JONESI 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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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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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