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“Not only did I have the freedom and control to introduce Dolly as a regular performer, but back then, radio was much friendlier to new recording artists.” quote by Porter Wagoner — Download Open image

“Not only did I have the freedom and control to introduce Dolly as a regular performer, but back then, radio was much friendlier to new recording artists.”

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I believe there is a different kind of beauty, the beauty of being honest, of being yourself, of singing it like you feel it.

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Of course, Dolly started out basically on my television show. She just learned a lot when she was on my show the first seven…

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Everywhere I go, people tell me they still love traditional country.

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I didn't start in the music business to make money.

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I never drank any in my life. Never have. Just never liked the taste of whiskey, and beer I don't care for at all.

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When you get involved in litigation with attorneys, man, they drag you down in the mud.

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Good country music is kind of like getting a straight, honest answer.

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I've always been a team player, tried to make the show and the band - especially something that I was responsible for, like 'The…

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Don't try to be something you're not, and find some great songs because there is still an interest.

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I love to write but it lays real heavy on your mind. Because I'd have to get so involved in ideas, I'd get lost in them, you know... Whenever I wrote songs, a lot of the times I was in sort of a down mood, an off-time. But I did that to have a contrast, because you can't run wide…

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The days of an artist receiving airplay as a new act are gone.

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You couldn't help but like James Brown if you came to see a show because he's such a wonderful showman.

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