Quotes by Mickey Gilley - Page 1

I don't own everything, I do have a partner.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Partner
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All I want to do is do my shows and play golf.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Golf
Play
Want
Play Golf
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All I have to concentrate on is my performing.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Performing
Concentrate
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Don't all the girls get prettier at closing time?
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Girl
Closing
Unanswered Questions
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A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Appearance
Records
Vehicle
Appearances
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I have the restaurant, too. I serve Southwest, barbecue.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Barbecue
Restaurant
Serve
Southwest
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If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Good Food
People
Restaurants
Good Food Restaurant
Good Food People
Restaurant
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I had a few stocks, but stocks took a dive. I never sell my stocks.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Dive
Sell
Stocks
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I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Drawers
Knives
Know How
Count
Drawer
Sharpest
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Back then I thought if you cut a record, you were automatically a star.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Automatically
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I had seventeen No. 1 songs and I didn't see anything like that kind of money.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Seventeen
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All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Made
Selling
Selling Products
Dates
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I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Kids
Age
Audience
Grown
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I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Knows
Mean
Trying
Ahead
Reinvest
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I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Airline
Lots Of Money
Tanks
Stock
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If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Labels
Majors
Today
Label
Major Label
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If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Albums
Bucks
Cents
Cutting
Dollars
Fifty
Pockets
Ten
Album
Sell
Pocket
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Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Me Day People
Restaurant
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It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Babe
Ruth
Money More Make
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I never made any money off of my records. It gave me the name across the country so that I could do some of the things in my personal appearances.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Country
Names
Records
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It's like Branson. When I went to Branson there was only 4 acts in there. Now, you can't count 'em. There's so many theatres now, that only the strong will survive.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Acts
Count
Survive
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So I'm trying to spread myself to the point to where I can do the night shows and not have to worry about the matinees, and do one or two matinees down through the year.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Night
Spread
Two
Worry
Years
One Or Two
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There used to be a lot of acts, which was good, because people don't want to see the same act every night. But, you don't want too many acts, you don't want to over-saturate it.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Every Night
Night
People
Want
Acts
Good Night People
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When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Guy
Names
Rights
Finds
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I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Morning
Afternoon
Best Year
Evening
Hiring
Theater
Years
Acts
Fullest
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My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Beach
Bills
Busy
Tourism
Years
All Year
Restaurant
Tourist
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A lost of people recognize me and maybe will ask for an autograph, but it's nothing like if Elvis would've done something like that, 'cause he's so popular, or maybe The Beatles 'cause they stirred up a lot of action.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Autograph
Elvis
Popular
Recognize
Stirred
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Cause I can make more money going in and doing my recordings and selling them through my entities that I have, rather than going to a record co. and them release a record and pay me 5 percent of what they make off it.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Causes
Pay
Records
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'Cause I can make more money going in and doing my recordings and selling them through my entities that I have, rather than going to a record co. and them release a record and pay me 5 percent of what they make off it.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Release
Selling
Money Me Doing
Entities
Recordings
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I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done.
Mickey Gilley / Singer
Famous
Names
People
Would Be
Done Me People
Famous Me People
Nicest
Popular
Ordinarily
Proper
Recognizable
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