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.
GEORGE JONESI took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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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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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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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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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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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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