I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
GEORGE JONESWe didn’t want to sing but we sang.
More George Jones Quotes
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We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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