We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
GEORGE JONESGod bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
More George Jones Quotes
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Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow.
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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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All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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 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 hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.
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I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.
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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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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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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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