You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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 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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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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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’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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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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