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.
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 just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.
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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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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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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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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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow.
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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