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Mickey Gilley

"All I want to do is do my shows and play golf."

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"All I want to do is do my shows and play golf."

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Mickey Gilley
"I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me."

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Mickey Gilley
"I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done."

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Mickey Gilley
"'Cause I can make more money going in and doing my recordings and selling them through my entities that I have, rather than going to a record co. and them release a record and pay me 5 percent of what they make off it."

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Mickey Gilley
"When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through."

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Mickey Gilley
"There used to be a lot of acts, which was good, because people don't want to see the same act every night. But, you don't want too many acts, you don't want to over-saturate it."

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Mickey Gilley
"If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up."

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Mickey Gilley
"My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year."

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Mickey Gilley
"If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket."

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Mickey Gilley
"A lost of people recognize me and maybe will ask for an autograph, but it's nothing like if Elvis would've done something like that, 'cause he's so popular, or maybe The Beatles 'cause they stirred up a lot of action."

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Mickey Gilley
"All I want to do is do my shows and play golf."

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Aberjhani

"Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet."

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Aberjhani

"Playing golf is like learning a foreign language."

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Aberjhani

"Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built."

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Aberjhani

"Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself."

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Aberjhani

"A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors."

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Aberjhani

"Golf seems to be an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dog's out."

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Aberjhani

"I know bugger all about golf."

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Aberjhani

"My golf is woeful but I will never surrender."

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Aberjhani

"Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart."

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Aberjhani

"A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible."

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