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 JONESMaybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
More George Jones Quotes
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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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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After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, ‘Lord, please give me a hit.’ I want one so bad.
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Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.
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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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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.
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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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