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If a song was ever good, it's still good.
Ever Good Song Still
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I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Most Out Poverty Think
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Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.

Chords Country Song Three
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You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody.

Need Poor Somebody Something
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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.

About Church First First Time
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Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together.

Fun Had Lot Recording
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First class no be who collect extra sheet.

First Class Collect Sheet
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Working hard but we hardly working.

Working Hard But Hardly
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America, to me, is freedom.
America Freedom Me
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I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.

Because Control Like No-One
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There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.

Country Music Enthusiasm Good
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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.

Anybody Between Borders Broke
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Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.

After Because Books Bus
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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.

Born Central Divorced Grandparents
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I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.

Because Defend Elected Except
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You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.

Balance Both Friend Good
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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.

Affected Cool Going Happening
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When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too.

Advice Any Breathing Exercise
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Great songs stand out wherever they're from.
Great Great Songs Out Songs
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I like to stick with music I know I can play. I love classical, but I don't think I could ever play it. I'm just not qualified.

Classical Could Ever I Can
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You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection.

About Any Could Creepy
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I'm not prejudiced in any way that I can think of. That's just not the guy I am.

Am Any Guy I Am
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I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.

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

About Any Any Other Way Been
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Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.

Control Freedom Important Learning
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Everything about Sinatra was good. He had the ability to pick great songs, and once Sinatra had sung them, that pretty much was it. He pretty much put his stamp on everything.

Ability About Everything Good
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I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.

About Email Extent Family
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All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty good at that stuff. And I'm proud of them, but I don't really keep up with it.

Computers Good Internet Keep
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If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

Along Get Really Somebody
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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!'

Anybody Be Yourself Change Going
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I have never seen myself as a small person. I have always seen myself as a big boy, a captain, the leader.

Never Myself Person Captain
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Since I was a kid, music was what I wanted to do. I thought I could make it by my own talents. That's what I wanted to prove.

Could Kid Make Music
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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.

About Band Bars Distance
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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.

Art Chords Country Country Music
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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.

About Anybody Concerned Gay
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The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

Artists Back Just Love
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My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

Always Close Come Expect
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I always felt like if you get to a point where you've got enough money to invest in something real, you gotta invest in anything that's related to a natural resource because that's gonna be here forever - so you might as well invest in something that's gonna be here, rather than invest in something that's gonna wear out.

Always Anything Because Enough
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I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.
Around Board Got Just
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It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.

Always Business First Gonna
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As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.

Always Attached Giving Great
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That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.

Actual Actually Anyone Anything
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Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.

Album Always Bought Experience
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I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.

Afford African Believe Afford
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I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.

Albums Always Between Come
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Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

Actually Artists Controversy Deal
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The difference between dreams and success is that dreams need effortless sleep and success needs sleepless efforts.

Dream Need Effort Sleep
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I think even outside of being an artist, anyone with success should always put themselves in a position to help others.

Always Position Other Anyone
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I am not a tout; I am an actor.

I Tout Actor Am
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People think I am a womanizer.

People Think I Womanizer
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