I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
GEORGE JONESAll Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
More George Jones Quotes
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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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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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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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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I love what I’ve done and I just can’t stand to see what they’re doing to it. But I’ve learned to live with it because that’s what they’ve done. They’ve come in with the modern sounds. I call it modern pop. It’s not country anymore.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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