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.
GEORGE JONESIf people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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 sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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