I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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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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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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You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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 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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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