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 JONESIf drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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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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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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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