If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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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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All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
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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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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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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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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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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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 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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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