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 JONESIt goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
More George Jones Quotes
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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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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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 sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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 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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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 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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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