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Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.

George Jones

The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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Different Forgiven Other Saint Sinner
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
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
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
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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Album Artist Away Buy Country Music Need Support
I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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Best Esteem Low Self Practice Wrong
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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Always Out Shut Stop Waiting World
I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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Eight Enjoy Food Gain Keep Long Through Want Weight
Don’t let the ‘business’ change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.
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Always Business Change Fake Fan Love Response Singer Tell
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 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
God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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Artist Bless Blue Boy Celebrity God Popular Shoes World
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
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
Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow.
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Common Country Man Music Real Simple Speak
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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Dream Love Romantic Walk World You
I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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Eat Rather Sad Sing Song
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
All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
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Good Outsell Sing Somebody Song Version
It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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Beyond Goes Love Misuse Money Much People Something
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
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
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
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
Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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Choice Lessened Loneliness Lonely
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
There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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Engine Gleaming Glow Half Horse Key Seat Taken Ten

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