Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
GEORGE JONESYou can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
More George Jones Quotes
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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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You never see yourself as others do but I’ve always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me.
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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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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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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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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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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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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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