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,
GEORGE JONESCountry 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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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 took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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 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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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.
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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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