Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
GEORGE JONESDifferent people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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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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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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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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