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.
GEORGE JONESDifferent people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
More George Jones Quotes
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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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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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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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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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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I 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.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I’m an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I’ve got out there,
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