Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
GEORGE JONESThere are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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 are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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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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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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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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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