I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
GEORGE JONESGod bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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Some of them don’t have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don’t sell two million copies, you’re gone, you’re out of here.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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