Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
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 you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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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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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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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 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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Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I’m an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I’ve got out there,
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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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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