Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
GEORGE JONESYou can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
More George Jones Quotes
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If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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 drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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.”
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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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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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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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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.
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You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
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