The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
GEORGE JONESIt goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
More George Jones Quotes
-
-
You can’t put this possum in a cage
GEORGE JONES -
A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get ’em the right kind of hat, and if anything’s wrong with their nose, if it’s a little crooked, it’s got to be straightened up.
GEORGE JONES -
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,
GEORGE JONES -
I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
GEORGE JONES -
No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
GEORGE JONES -
There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
GEORGE JONES -
Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
GEORGE JONES -
I want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.
GEORGE JONES -
Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
GEORGE JONES -
I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
GEORGE JONES -
We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
GEORGE JONES -
Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.
GEORGE JONES -
If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
GEORGE JONES -
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.
GEORGE JONES -
All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
GEORGE JONES