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,
GEORGE JONESAnybody who loves country music loves gospel.
More George Jones Quotes
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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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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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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I just thank God I’m still here and the main thing is to try to get closer and closer to Him as much as I can so that I can treat my friends and my family the way they should be treated.
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