It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
GEORGE JONESCountry 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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 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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Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I’m an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I’ve got out there,
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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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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