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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,

George Jones

If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
GEORGE JONES

Enough Mind People Sing Special Yea
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.
GEORGE JONES

Couple Milion Copy Need Release Require Some
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.
GEORGE JONES

Album Artist Away Buy Country Music Need Support
You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
GEORGE JONES

Always Out Shut Stop Waiting World
I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
GEORGE JONES

Country Heart Music People Respond Sing
Don’t let the ‘business’ change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.
GEORGE JONES

Always Business Change Fake Fan Love Response Singer Tell
A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
GEORGE JONES

Engine Glistening Glow Horsepower Key Rotary Seat Ten Under
Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
GEORGE JONES

Different Measure People Philosophy Success Way Wrong
A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get ’em the right kind of hat, and if anything’s wrong with their nose, if it’s a little crooked, it’s got to be straightened up.
GEORGE JONES

Artist Crook Fix Hat Jeans Kind Lighten Nose Right Straightened Teeth
I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
GEORGE JONES

Bought Cocaine Foolishness New Rest Spent Took
You can’t put this possum in a cage
GEORGE JONES

Cage Possum Puut
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.”
GEORGE JONES

Country Difference Drunk Father Night Say Sing Song Time
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 JONES

Business Country Everybody Men Music Old Stuck Stuff Traditionalist
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 JONES

Country Format Hope Music never Others Proud Yourself
All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
GEORGE JONES

Good Outsell Sing Somebody Song Version
Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
GEORGE JONES

Inside Love Real Stay True Voice

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