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 JONESHe stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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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 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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.
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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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