We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
GEORGE JONESThere’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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 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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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 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.
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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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I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.
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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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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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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’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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