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.
GEORGE JONESI sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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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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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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Country 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.
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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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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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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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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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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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