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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.

George Jones

It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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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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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 nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.
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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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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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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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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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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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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