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,
GEORGE JONESYou never see yourself as others do but I’ve always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me.
More George Jones Quotes
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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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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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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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 took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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