I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
GEORGE JONESBe real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
More George Jones Quotes
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Don’t let the ‘business’ change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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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Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I’m an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I’ve got out there,
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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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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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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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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 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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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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