We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
GEORGE JONESCountry music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
More George Jones Quotes
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I love what I’ve done and I just can’t stand to see what they’re doing to it. But I’ve learned to live with it because that’s what they’ve done. They’ve come in with the modern sounds. I call it modern pop. It’s not country anymore.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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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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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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.
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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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It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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