There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
GEORGE JONESSome 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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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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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 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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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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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