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.
GEORGE JONESThere, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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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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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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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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