I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
GEORGE JONESYou can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I’m an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I’ve got 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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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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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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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