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.
GEORGE JONESCountry music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
More George Jones Quotes
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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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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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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You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
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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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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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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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