George Jones Quotes - Page 2

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

All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!

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

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.

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.

If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.

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'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.

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

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.

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.

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

After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, 'Lord, please give me a hit.' I want one so bad.