There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
GEORGE JONESA key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
More George Jones Quotes
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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I would have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.
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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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Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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