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 JONESBefore then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
More George Jones Quotes
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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.
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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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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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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.
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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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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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Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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