I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
GEORGE JONESMaybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
More George Jones Quotes
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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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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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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