Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
GEORGE JONESSome 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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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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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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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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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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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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