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.
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 can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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It didn’t make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he’d say, “Get up and sing me some songs.”
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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
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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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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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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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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I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
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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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