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 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.
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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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 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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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 you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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