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 JONESEverybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I’m an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I’ve got out there,
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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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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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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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Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I’m an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I’ve got out there,
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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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A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get ’em the right kind of hat, and if anything’s wrong with their nose, if it’s a little crooked, it’s got to be straightened up.
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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