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I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
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Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
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Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
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Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.
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Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.
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For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.
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A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
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It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.
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Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.
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What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.
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The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
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I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
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I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
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Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
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