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 just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
More George Jones Quotes
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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 lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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I want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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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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