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.”
GEORGE JONESI’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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