It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
GEORGE JONESToday they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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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 lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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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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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 bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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