If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
GEORGE JONESWe older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
More George Jones Quotes
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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 can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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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’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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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 should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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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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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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