Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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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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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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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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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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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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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Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow.
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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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