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.
GEORGE JONESI can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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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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