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.
GEORGE JONESI 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.
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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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