Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
GEORGE JONESBe real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
More George Jones Quotes
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.
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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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If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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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 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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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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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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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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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