I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
GEORGE JONESI can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
GEORGE JONESAnybody who loves country music loves gospel.
GEORGE JONESIt might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
GEORGE JONESCountry 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.
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,
GEORGE JONESBe real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
GEORGE JONESThere’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
GEORGE JONESIt goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
GEORGE JONESIt 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 JONESCountry music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
GEORGE JONESI lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
GEORGE JONESYou can’t put this possum in a cage
GEORGE JONESAll Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
GEORGE JONESI just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
GEORGE JONESA 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 JONESNo matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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