I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
GEORGE JONESI 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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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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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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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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