There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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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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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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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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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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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Some of them don’t have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don’t sell two million copies, you’re gone, you’re out of here.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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