I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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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I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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 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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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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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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