If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
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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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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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 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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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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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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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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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