If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
GEORGE JONESI’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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 sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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