I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
GEORGE JONESToday they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
More George Jones Quotes
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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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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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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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 want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.
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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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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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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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