I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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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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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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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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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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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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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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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 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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