Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
GEORGE JONESI’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get ’em the right kind of hat, and if anything’s wrong with their nose, if it’s a little crooked, it’s got to be straightened up.
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All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I’m an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I’ve got out there,
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Don’t let the ‘business’ change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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Some of them don’t have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don’t sell two million copies, you’re gone, you’re out of here.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
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