I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.
GEORGE JONESIt 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.”
More George Jones Quotes
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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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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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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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, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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