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.
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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If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
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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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Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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 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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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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 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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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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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