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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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’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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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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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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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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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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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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 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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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