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.
GEORGE JONESI 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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 took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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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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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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