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,
GEORGE JONESDifferent people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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Country 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.
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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
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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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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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 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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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I 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.
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