I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
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