Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
GEORGE JONESWe didn’t want to sing but we sang.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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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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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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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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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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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 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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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, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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