I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
GEORGE JONESThere’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
More George Jones Quotes
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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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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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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 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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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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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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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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