Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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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 just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get ’em the right kind of hat, and if anything’s wrong with their nose, if it’s a little crooked, it’s got to be straightened up.
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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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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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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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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