Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
GEORGE JONESIt 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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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 drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.
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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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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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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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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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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.
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Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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