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.
GEORGE JONESYou never see yourself as others do but I’ve always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me.
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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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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