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The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.
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If I hear another line dance song I think I'm going to puke.
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Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.
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The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.
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Heaven knows that alcohol is the worst thing in the world, but it's debatable whether cocaine is worse than caffeine or whether it's the same thing and they just changed the name.
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I probably wouldn't even be here now if it weren't for chiropractic
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Merle HaggardEverybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.
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It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.
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I think it was Tommy who told me, 'When your song is called 'XYZ' or whatever, every line has got to make sense against your title.' He showed me little methods of proving to yourself whether the line belongs, and ways of finding out whether you were able to get more out of a line if you tried.
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My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.
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My second wife Bonnie Owens and I worked together after we divorced for a period of maybe 20 years. And I managed to stay friends with another wife. And then there's one that I don't mess with. Everybody's got one of those.
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The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle slowly take command.
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HAG Records, is a company that I've owned. I've had a couple of gospel releases on it. We developed a pretty good distribution setup there and we do have something to use in case they don't want to sign us.
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They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight.
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I haven't had any problems with my back since I got the foot surgery.
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There are so many conditions to programming in America, where it's dominated by these people that own 800 radio stations that have no idea who to play and who not to play, and they listen to somebody or read somebody else's programming sheet and go by Buck Owens' opinion or something. Eight hundred stations are controlled by some guy that doesn't have a clue as to what to do about music.
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Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material.
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I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.
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I've got one young family by the first wife, with four children.
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Despite of all my Sunday learnin', toward the bad I kept turning.
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We're turning into the society that is accepting the force-feed. I don't quite understand why we're going for the things we're going for. There's no process of elimination anymore in music. They have these grooming schools, these things, and they're turning out these clones, and the music is sounding so refined that it's not even interesting.
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If I had a choice, and there was a "Y" in the road, I would always take the one that was more fun as opposed to the one that might make me more money.
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At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?
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We are under government's control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.
Merle Haggard