God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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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 drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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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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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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