It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
GEORGE JONESI 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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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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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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You never see yourself as others do but I’ve always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
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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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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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