Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
GEORGE JONESI 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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It didn’t make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he’d say, “Get up and sing me some songs.”
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
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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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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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