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"I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isn't really what I would want to go for."
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"Sleep is God. Go worship."
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"Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that."
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"Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her."
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"You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday."
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"Let the night take you. Let the stars evaporate into your dreams. Let sleep be the only comfort for you to believe."
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"That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep."
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"A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae."
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"To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself."
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"A few minutes later, my eyes began to feel a bit droopy, but I vaguely noticed that Anissa was whispering something."
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"I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences."
Music
"I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'"
Time
"I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer."
Country
"Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You don't have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody else. So you better do it while you can."
Time
"I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry."
Change
"The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy."
Loneliness
"But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes."
Bed
"If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music."
Music
"The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that."
Work
"I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But... all the time I'm watching the country music horizon. And I'm sayin' 'Lord, is there anybody gonna come?'"
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