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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.

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Thought, Albums, Having, Platinum

I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.

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Fact, Study, Like, First Class

For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.

- Randy Travis

Big, Study, Some, Big Influence

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

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Music, Doubt, Farther, Schooling

I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.

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Country, Away, I Think, Drift

My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.

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Love, Play, Career, Pursued

I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.

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Singing, Old, Been, Full Time

To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.

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Country, About, Lives, Deals

You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.

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Artist, Evolve, Continue, Expand

I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.

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Wish, I Wish, Times, Finished

The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

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Career, Going, Last, Peak

I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.

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Gun, Like, Getting, Horses

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

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Nature, Business, Learned, Due

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

- Randy Travis

World, Behind, Take, Leave

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