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.
GEORGE JONESI’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
More George Jones Quotes
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If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, ‘Lord, please give me a hit.’ I want one so bad.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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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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You never see yourself as others do but I’ve always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me.
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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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