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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.

George Jones

All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
GEORGE JONES

Good Outsell Sing Somebody Song Version
I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
GEORGE JONES

Country Good Love Muisc Stuff Traditional Wrong
I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
GEORGE JONES

Again Drunk Head Home Honk Lay Social Taboo
We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
GEORGE JONES

Artist Completely Country Gospel Modern Music Order People Style Young
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.
GEORGE JONES

Artist Crook Fix Hat Jeans Kind Lighten Nose Right Straightened Teeth
I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
GEORGE JONES

Country Heart Music People Respond Sing
There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
GEORGE JONES

Lost Melody Nothing Prettier Song World
After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, ‘Lord, please give me a hit.’ I want one so bad.
GEORGE JONES

Bad Couple Giving Hit Lord Pray Record Want Year
Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
GEORGE JONES

Alcoholic Character Drinking Drunk Lazy Maybe Other Some Voluntary
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.
GEORGE JONES

Artist Country Hear Label More Radio Record Rock Some
I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
GEORGE JONES

Eat Rather Sad Sing Song
God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
GEORGE JONES

Artist Bless Blue Boy Celebrity God Popular Shoes World
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,
GEORGE JONES

Business Country Everybody Men Music Old Stuck Stuff Traditionalist
No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
GEORGE JONES

Matter Sang Song Way
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.
GEORGE JONES

Common Country Man Music Real Simple Speak
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 JONES

Enough Mind People Sing Special Yea

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