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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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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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 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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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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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 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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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