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 JONESYou 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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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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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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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 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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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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It didn’t make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he’d say, “Get up and sing me some songs.”
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