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.
GEORGE JONESWe older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
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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 drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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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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