I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
GEORGE JONESEverybody 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,
More George Jones Quotes
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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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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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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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 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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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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