Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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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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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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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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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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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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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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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’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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