I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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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 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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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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 can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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