I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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.
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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.
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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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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 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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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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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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