We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
GEORGE JONESThere’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
More George Jones Quotes
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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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.
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I just thank God I’m still here and the main thing is to try to get closer and closer to Him as much as I can so that I can treat my friends and my family the way they should be treated.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but 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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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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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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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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