I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
GEORGE JONESI 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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You never see yourself as others do but I’ve always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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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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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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I would have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.
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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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