I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
GEORGE JONESCountry 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 never see yourself as others do but I’ve always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me.
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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 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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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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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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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 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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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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Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.
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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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