We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
GEORGE JONESEven they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
More George Jones Quotes
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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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 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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