If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
GEORGE JONESMaybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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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 took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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 bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get ’em the right kind of hat, and if anything’s wrong with their nose, if it’s a little crooked, it’s got to be straightened up.
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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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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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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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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