He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
GEORGE JONESToday they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
More George Jones Quotes
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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 are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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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Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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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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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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