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.
GEORGE JONESAfter 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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 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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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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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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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