A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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,
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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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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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If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
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You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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I just thank God I’m still here and the main thing is to try to get closer and closer to Him as much as I can so that I can treat my friends and my family the way they should be treated.
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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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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 can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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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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