“I would give anything if I could sing like George Jones.”

—  George Jones

Waylon Jennings, The True Genius of George Jones http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/04/26/george_jones_died_the_country_music_legend_was_a_genius_video.html.

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