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 JONESAll Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
More George Jones Quotes
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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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 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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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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