I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
GEORGE JONESAnybody who loves country music loves gospel.
More George Jones Quotes
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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 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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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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 would have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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 just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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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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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 sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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