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 JONESI 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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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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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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 goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.
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