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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones, -- Waylon Jennings
George Jones was my all-time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world. -- Dolly Parton
When people ask me who my favorite country singer is, I say, 'You mean besides George Jones?' -- Johnny Cash
George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend. -- Ray Stevens
Yeah I'm chillin' on a dirt road, laid back swervin' like I'm George Jones. -- Jason Aldean
I'm a member of the George Jones fan club, and I'm a member of U2's fan club. -- Dierks Bentley
I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff. -- Brad Paisley
George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently. -- Keith Richards
Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it. -- Dolly Parton
I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites. -- Tanya Tucker
Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough to sing a gospel song? -- Marty Stuart
When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris. -- Dolly Parton
Man, for someone like me who had George Jones music imprinted in my DNA before birth, the last few years have been rough as a fan of country music. -- Sammy Kershaw
Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. And you can really hold their hands, not just sing about it. No disrespect to George Jones. -- Gale Harold
And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett. -- Lee Ann Womack
George Jones was a big, huge name in our household. George Jones-he is considered country, but in every genre he is known. Everybody knows George Jones. But George has such a unique voice. And he made such timeless songs, like "Color of the Blues", just real hard-core country stuff. -- Patty Loveless
I believe if you ask any singer who was the greatest country music singer of all time, they would say 'George Jones'. He was without question and by far the BEST! I first met and worked with him when I was 13 years old; I am so very grateful that he was my friend. -- Barbara Mandrell
Country music as we know it would be vastly different if it weren't for George Jones. He's in our musical DNA. All country artists will have to figure out how to even begin to live up to his kind of legacy. 'Honky Tonk Heaven,' here he comes... though we're not ready to let go. -- Pam Tillis
You think about people like Hank Williams, who stood on that spot of wood, and Mr. Acuff, and, of course, George Jones. And just about anybody you can think of who has made country music has been on that stage. That's what makes you so nervous - to think about the historical part of the Opry and how it's played such a part in country music. -- Alan Jackson
George Jones and I happen to share the same birthday. The first and only time I met him (which I believe was at the Opry if my memory serves me), I told him that. His response, 'You must be trouble.' Takes one to know one, I am so proud to say. George, his music and his mischievous trouble, will all be missed. He is a country legend. -- Jennifer Nettles
George Jones was my friend and I loved him. -- Trace Adkins
Today is a sad day in Country music. We have lost another piece of history. George Jones was not only a good singer, but was a good friend. He will be missed by many. -- Hank Williams, Jr.
I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with Gram Parsons. I learned how to listen to George Jones records and the Louvin Brothers. -- Emmylou Harris
"He Stopped Loving Her Today" a fascinating book about the making of a record. Really, to be honest, it has some of the best George Jones anecdotes I've ever read, like cocaine psychosis causing this personality called "the Duck." -- Scott McClanahan
If I'm listening to country, it's Hank Williams, George Jones, Merle Haggard and stuff like that. If people out there don't take that stuff seriously, well, they just haven't listened to it and don't know what they're talking about. -- Buzz Osborne
George Jones will always be one of the most amazing singers who ever lived. He was a true Country Music legend who made music very personal to the listener â?? I think more than anyone else. He will be dearly missed, but always remembered. -- Kenny Rogers
My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even. -- Martina McBride
George Jones is country soul. Once this kind of music sits in you and you take it all, it reaches down into your soul. George Jones to me was one of the most soulful singers of any genre. That drew me to his music. He knew how to present a song without really thinking about it. -- Patty Loveless
I love Florida Georgia Line. I love 'Round Here.' So if a fan wants to listen to that, and if a fan that wasn't listening to country music before is listening to 'Cruise' on Pandora, and after that a song by George Jones comes on, they may have never heard George Jones before. I think it's a good thing for the genre. -- Scotty McCreery
But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to. -- Lawrence Kasdan

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