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 JONESA key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
More George Jones Quotes
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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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 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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
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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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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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