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 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 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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Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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I want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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