There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
GEORGE JONESLoneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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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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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 lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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