Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
GEORGE JONESYou can’t put this possum in a cage
More George Jones Quotes
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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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Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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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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I love what I’ve done and I just can’t stand to see what they’re doing to it. But I’ve learned to live with it because that’s what they’ve done. They’ve come in with the modern sounds. I call it modern pop. It’s not country anymore.
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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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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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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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