There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
GEORGE JONESIf people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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 just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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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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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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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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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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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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