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.”
GEORGE JONESI 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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 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 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.
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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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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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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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Don’t let the ‘business’ change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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I want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.
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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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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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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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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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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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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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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