God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
GEORGE JONESYou can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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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 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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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 goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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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 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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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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