Don’t let the ‘business’ change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.
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 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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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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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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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If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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 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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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