You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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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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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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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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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