There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
GEORGE JONESBe real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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 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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You never see yourself as others do but I’ve always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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 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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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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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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A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get ’em the right kind of hat, and if anything’s wrong with their nose, if it’s a little crooked, it’s got to be straightened up.
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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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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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