I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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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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,
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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 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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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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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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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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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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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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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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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