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.
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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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 sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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