Don’t let the ‘business’ change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.
GEORGE JONESToday they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
More George Jones Quotes
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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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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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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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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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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