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.
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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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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 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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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 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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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