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If I can't take Jesus Christ with me, I don't want to go.
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Marry somebody you love. That's the whole thing. And continue to love them.
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I think we should keep voting, I think we should keep supporting things that we believe in. I don't think we ought to just quit.
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Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with your life - to make music. It takes a commitment - a tremendous, thick-skinned commitment of being the first one to get there and the last one to leave, doing what you want to do even if you have to work twice as hard as anybody else ever did.
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Pray for our troops.
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I ain't askin' nobody for nuttin' if I cain't get it on my own.
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I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.
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I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.
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You marry somebody you love, that you feel like you want to spend the rest of your life with, that you're excited to wake up with every morning if you enjoy spending the day with. Right now... my wife is my best friend, by far my best friend.
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We're gonna hunt you down like a mad dog hound and make you pay for the lives you stole.
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We can get rid of red tape.
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A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music.
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I didn't really fit well with what was going on in Nashville at the time. I was too loud, I was too bluesy, I was too "a lot of things.
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We never envisioned this much stuff. I'm overwhelmed by the support out there for the troops, ... only one company that will remain nameless turned us down.
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I couldn't care less about politically correct.
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I don't have any real "process." Some people in Nashville go in like an assembly line. They're able to go and write. My son runs a publishing company. He has writers that come down. They get together in a room with the people that actually make appointments, and write - which is great. I can't do that very well.
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We played everything from "White Sports Coat" to Bill Haley and the Comets - whatever happened to be the "in music" at the time.
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We will miss Ransom's presence and are indebted to him for his many years of service.
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People say, "Well, we're all just going to die and go to heaven anyway, or Jesus is going to come back" or something. I don't feel like God wants us just to lay down and die just because that's going to happen. I think we should keep trying.
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I love being Charlie Daniels for good, bad, or indifferent.
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I can't imagine not having a reason to get out of bed at night.
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So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last
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Some of our friends came and sat in with us, and it was just so much fun. We said, "Hey, let's do this once in a while." We did them every year for a while, then we took it on the road. We've done eighteen now, I think.
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I believe you might want to say something. I've never seen you at a loss for words.