Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
GEORGE JONESCountry music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
GEORGE JONESThere are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
GEORGE JONESAfter 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.
GEORGE JONESThere’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
GEORGE JONESDifferent people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
GEORGE JONESWe older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
GEORGE JONESI lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
GEORGE JONESI would have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.
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 JONESI 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.
GEORGE JONESBe real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
GEORGE JONESSome 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 JONESNo matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
GEORGE JONESHe stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
GEORGE JONESYou 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 JONESWe didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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