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 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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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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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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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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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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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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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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