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.
GEORGE JONESIt goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
More George Jones Quotes
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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.
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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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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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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