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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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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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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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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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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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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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I want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.
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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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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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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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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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