I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
GEORGE JONESI can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
More George Jones Quotes
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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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 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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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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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If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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 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 sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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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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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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