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,
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 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 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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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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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’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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