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" As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them. "

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" I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone. "

" The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite. "

" Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!' "

" I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style! "

" I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me. "

" I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have. "

" America, to me, is freedom. "

" I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out there on all those early songs and poems. I hope no one ever finds it. I don't think it's my finest work. "

" I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone. "

" I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad. "

" When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig - 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band. Pretty soon, I ended up playing in all the bars within driving distance of Abbott, Texas. "

" My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round. "

" I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B. "

" All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up? "

" If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time. "

" When I see someone I think is cool, he's a pretty well-adjusted individual. He's not too affected one way or the other by what's happening, no matter what's going through his mind. "

" I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans - the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today. "

" Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. "

" A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world. "

" When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. "

" I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money. "

" If a song was ever good, it's still good. "

" Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. "

" Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless. "

" There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies. "

" Great songs stand out wherever they're from. "

" Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach. "

" I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth. "

" We've already been reincarnated about a million times, maybe. It doesn't make sense any other way. "