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,
GEORGE JONESBefore then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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Country 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.
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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 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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
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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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Don’t let the ‘business’ change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.
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