We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
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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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 shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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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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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 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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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 are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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