God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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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Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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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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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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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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All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
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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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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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 didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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