All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
GEORGE JONESI 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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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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I just thank God I’m still here and the main thing is to try to get closer and closer to Him as much as I can so that I can treat my friends and my family the way they should be treated.
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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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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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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 are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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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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