Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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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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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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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 took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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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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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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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I love what I’ve done and I just can’t stand to see what they’re doing to it. But I’ve learned to live with it because that’s what they’ve done. They’ve come in with the modern sounds. I call it modern pop. It’s not country anymore.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get ’em the right kind of hat, and if anything’s wrong with their nose, if it’s a little crooked, it’s got to be straightened up.
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