Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
GEORGE JONESYou 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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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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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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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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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