Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
GEORGE JONESI just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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 can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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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 sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, ‘Lord, please give me a hit.’ I want one so bad.
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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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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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