I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
GEORGE JONESI 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.
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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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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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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
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You 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.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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 can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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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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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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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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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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