All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
GEORGE JONESCountry 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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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 would have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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