All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
GEORGE JONESAnybody who loves country music loves gospel.
More George Jones Quotes
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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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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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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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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I 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.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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I love what I’ve done and I just can’t stand to see what they’re doing to it. But I’ve learned to live with it because that’s what they’ve done. They’ve come in with the modern sounds. I call it modern pop. It’s not country anymore.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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I want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.
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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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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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