I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
GEORGE JONESA 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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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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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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