You 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.
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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Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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I want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.
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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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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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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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 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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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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