Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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.
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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.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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