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.
GEORGE JONESCountry 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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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’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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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 can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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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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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.
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Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
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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 lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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I would have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.
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