God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
GEORGE JONESEverybody 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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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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 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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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 just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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 sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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