I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
GEORGE JONESAfter 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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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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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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