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.
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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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 took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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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I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.
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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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 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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