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 JONESI took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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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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Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow.
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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’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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