I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
GEORGE JONESI 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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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 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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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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 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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I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.
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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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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 key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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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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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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