I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
GEORGE JONESI 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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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 sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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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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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
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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 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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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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Don’t let the ‘business’ change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.
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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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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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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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