Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
GEORGE JONESI would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.
More George Jones Quotes
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It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
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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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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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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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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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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.
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I would have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.
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Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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