It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
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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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.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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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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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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