All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
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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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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 sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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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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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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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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