I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
GEORGE JONES
GEORGE JONES
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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.
George JonesGeorge Jones 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.
George JonesGeorge Jones 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.
George JonesGeorge Jones 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 JonesGeorge Jones If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
George JonesGeorge Jones 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.”
George JonesGeorge Jones 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.
George JonesGeorge Jones We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
George JonesGeorge Jones 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.
George JonesGeorge Jones The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
George JonesGeorge Jones Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
George JonesGeorge Jones If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
George JonesGeorge Jones 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.
George JonesGeorge Jones He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
George JonesGeorge Jones Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
George JonesGeorge Jones Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
George JonesGeorge Jones
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