Best 31 quotes of George Jones on MyQuotes

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.

Anybody who loves country music loves gospel. Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I'm competing with. We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.

Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.

Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you. 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.

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.

Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow. Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.

Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best.

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, I can't be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.

God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.

He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.

If drinking don't kill me, her memory will.

I'd rather sing a sad song than eat.

If you're gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.

I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.

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.

I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I'm gaining weight, 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.

I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again.

I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it. 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.

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." We didn't want to sing but we sang.

I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.

I've always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music, 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.

I've had a lot of practice and wrong's what I do best.

Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.

No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.

The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain't.

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

There's bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much. It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory. 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.

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.

Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. 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.

Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.

You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.