Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
GEORGE JONESSome 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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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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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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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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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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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