If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
GEORGE JONESWe older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
More George Jones Quotes
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get ’em the right kind of hat, and if anything’s wrong with their nose, if it’s a little crooked, it’s got to be straightened up.
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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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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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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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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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All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
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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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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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