I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
GEORGE JONESEven they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
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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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