Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
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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It didn’t make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he’d say, “Get up and sing me some songs.”
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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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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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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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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 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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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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