God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
GEORGE JONESThere’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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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’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
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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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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 would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.
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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 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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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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