I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
GEORGE JONESA key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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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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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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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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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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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 just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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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’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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