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.
GEORGE JONESLoneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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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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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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