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 JONESI 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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 just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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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 can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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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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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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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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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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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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