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 JONESI 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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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.
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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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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.
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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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 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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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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