I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
GEORGE JONESEverybody 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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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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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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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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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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