God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
GEORGE JONESEven they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
More George Jones Quotes
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.
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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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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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 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 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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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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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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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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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