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.
GEORGE JONESA 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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 are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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I just thank God I’m still here and the main thing is to try to get closer and closer to Him as much as I can so that I can treat my friends and my family the way they should be treated.
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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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