It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
GEORGE JONESI 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
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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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I just thank God I’m still here and the main thing is to try to get closer and closer to Him as much as I can so that I can treat my friends and my family the way they should be treated.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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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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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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 you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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 nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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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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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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