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.
GEORGE JONESCountry 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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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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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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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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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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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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, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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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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