I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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 just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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 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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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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