Latest George Jones Quotes from Interviews

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• No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.

  George Jones

  Song, Matter, Way

• 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.

  George Jones

  Years, Fans, Saying Thank You

• 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.

  George Jones

  Country, Artist, Rocks

• I've always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music, 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.

  George Jones

  Jobs, Fields, Break

  Source: www.cbn.com

• Anybody who loves country music loves gospel. Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I'm competing with. We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.

  George Jones

  Country, Artist, People

  Source: www.cbn.com

• If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.

  George Jones

  Years, People, Mind

  Source: www.cbn.com

• Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. 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.

  George Jones

  Couple, Artist, Years

  Source: www.cbn.com

• There's bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much. It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory. 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.

  George Jones

  Country, People, Sound

  Source: www.cbn.com

• 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.

  George Jones

  Artist, Jeans, Noses

  Source: www.cbn.com

• 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, I can't be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.

  George Jones

  Country, Men, Stuff

  Source: www.cbn.com

• I just thank God I'm still here and the main thing is to try to get closer and closer to Him as much as I can so that I can treat my friends and my family the way they should be treated.

  George Jones

  Trying, Thank God, Way

  Source: www.cbn.com

• I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I'm gaining weight, 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.

  George Jones

  Long, Weight, Want

  Source: www.cbn.com

• After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, 'Lord, please give me a hit.' I want one so bad.

  George Jones

  Couple, Years, Giving

  Source: www.cbn.com

• There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.

  George Jones

  Song, World, Lost

  Source: www.cbn.com