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 JONESMaybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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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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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 are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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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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We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
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