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.
GEORGE JONESToday they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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