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 JONESWe older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
More George Jones Quotes
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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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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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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Country 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.
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You never see yourself as others do but I’ve always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me.
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Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.
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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.
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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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