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.
GEORGE JONESCountry 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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I want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.
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I 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.
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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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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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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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