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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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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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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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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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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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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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’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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