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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.

George 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 JONES

Anymore Country Done Learn Love Modern Pop Sound Stand
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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Dream Love Romantic Walk World You
Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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Artist Couple Five Forget Four Nowadays Year
I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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Always Break Field Gospel Job Living Made Music Someway
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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Closer Friend God Just Manin Thank Thing Treat Trying Way
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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Country Difference Drunk Father Night Say Sing Song Time
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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Half Hour Liquor might More Store Taken
Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
GEORGE JONES

Different Measure People Philosophy Success Way Wrong
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.
GEORGE JONES

Country Format Hope Music never Others Proud Yourself
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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Always Business Change Fake Fan Love Response Singer Tell
I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
GEORGE JONES

Bought Cocaine Foolishness New Rest Spent Took
You can’t put this possum in a cage
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Cage Possum Puut
We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
GEORGE JONES

Artist Completely Country Gospel Modern Music Order People Style Young
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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Break Field Lost Love Naturally never Offer Other Road
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.
GEORGE JONES

Artist Country Hear Label More Radio Record Rock Some
If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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Baby Crazy Drink Drive

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