Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
GEORGE JONESA key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
More George Jones Quotes
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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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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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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Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
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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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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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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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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