No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
GEORGE JONESAnybody who loves country music loves gospel.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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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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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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