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 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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I’ve had a lot of practice and 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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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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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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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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