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.”
GEORGE JONESBe real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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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’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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