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.
GEORGE JONESI 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me 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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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It didn’t make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he’d say, “Get up and sing me some songs.”
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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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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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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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