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.
GEORGE JONESDon’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.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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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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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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