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You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

Baby Connect Connection Passion
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The first record took us, like, a year and a half to make. The second one took 21 days, including weekends.

Days First Half Including
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Really, each part, each one of us, I think, has our role, but I think for Joe, he really stands out and has that Mick Jagger-esque feel to him.

Each Each One Feel He
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At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.

Because Celebrating Family Friends
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I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.

About Bothered Come Deal
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My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.

Alive Ask Close Daddy
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Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

Becomes Cheap Love Love Is
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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.

Affluence Any Borrow Flour
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Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

After Around Been Behind
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What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.

Approach Blues Country Country
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Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory

Braille Damn Develop Ear
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So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they're going to come see you, and if they don't, and if you're kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won't come see you.

Come Getting Going IThink
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But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

Demos Finished FinishedProduct Going
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Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.
Around Besides Gypsy Heart
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So, I took lessons, and I love to shoot now. It's a lot of fun.

Fun ILove Lessons Lot
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And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.

After Band Crew Diego
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And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion.

Airport Asleep Brother Diego
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I have talked to Debbie Hammond quite a bit, Jim Hammond's wife, his widow. I've seen their kids. And last time we played Dallas, a lot of them came over. It's hard for them to come see the show. It's still hard.

Bit Came Come Dallas
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Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.

Born Educated Glory
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To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

Bad Good GoodAndBad GoodOnes
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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Love Emotion Experienced
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A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Man reserves Deepest love Company
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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Love demands Friendship
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I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.

Get Going He Hey
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It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

Contradict myself Improve wonderfully
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I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.
Any Ashamed Country IThink
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Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
Love Emotion Feels Man
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Be different, stand out, and work your butt off.

BeDifferent Butt Different Off
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It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.

Artist Wise Mind Indecent body
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Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.

Marriage Theory Man discovers Taste
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The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them.

Biggest BiggestChallenge Challenge Enough
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I love to wear boots - and shoes, I don't like at all.

Boots ILove Like Love
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And I was mischievous. I was always into something. So when I got good attention from the singing, I knew that was probably where I needed to land.

Always Attention Good Got
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I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.
Act Care Comedy Don'tCare
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A good song has to have a great melody, and the lyrics have to touch my heart. Now, if it's just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can't make you feel good.

Another Feel FeelGood Good
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When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.

Business Complain Got Hard
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I just try not to judge. Don't judge me, and I won't judge you.
Judge JudgeMe Just Me
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I exercise at least five times a week with stretching, Pilates, push-ups, planks, sit- ups, squats and light weights.

Exercise Five Least Light
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I treat myself pretty good. I take lots of vacations, I eat well, I take supplements, I do mercury detox, I get plenty of sleep, I drink plenty of water and I stay away from drama and stress.

Away Detox Drama Drink
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I am very into lyrics. I start with what the words are saying, what the storyline is saying, like a good script. It should really capture me, do something for me. If I don't get it, it's not going to move people, and if it's not going to move people, it's not going to happen.
Am Capture Get Going
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Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.

Affect Better Compassionate Conscious
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You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

Against Away Current Get
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So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.

About Feel Life Live
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People couldn't understand why my mama would have this blind kid out doing things like cutting wood for the fire. But her thing was: He may be blind, but he ain't stupid.

Blind Cutting Doing Fire
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I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.

Against Air Air Force Always
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I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denomination. I'm not Catholic or Presbyterian or Baptist or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim. I'm none of those things. And I'm sure that's just fine with God.

Any As Far As Baptist Believer
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

Class ClassClown Clown Getting
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I have no regrets. I feel very grateful for the life that I had - you know, family I live with; and I've been doing work that I love, ever since I came to Nashville.

Been Came Doing Ever
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I've had a life of all kinds of experiences - most of them good. And I've got eight kids and a wife that puts up with everything I do and keeps me out of trouble.

Eight Everything Experiences Good
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I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.

Anyway Good Had Heart
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