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.
GEORGE JONESI lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
More George Jones Quotes
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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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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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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’t put this possum in a cage
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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