George Jones

Person · Open Library

Works

27

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1931-09-12

Active to

2013-04-26

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

496,395

Total plays

6,778,048

Born September 12, 1931, George Jones is regarded among the most important and influential singers in American popular music history. He was the singer of enduring country music hits including "She Thinks I Still Care," "The Grand Tour," "Walk Through This World With Me," "Tender Years" and "He Stopped Loving Her Today," the latter of which is often at the top of industry lists of the greatest country music singles of all time. "A singer who can soar from a deep growl to dizzying heights <a hr

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A short history of<i>SHELX</i>

   · 2007 · cited 79,970x

2. Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test

   · 1997 · cited 48,686x

3. Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>

   · 2015 · cited 40,972x

4. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,562x

5. <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination

   · 2015 · cited 27,726x

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Quotes

• “There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.”
• “Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.”
• “I've seen hate change many things for the worse. I've seen love change everything for the good.”
• “I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.”
• “It's never been for love of money. I thank God for it because it makes me a living. But I sing because I love it, not because of the dollar signs.”
• “I couldn't think or eat nothin' unless it was Hank Williams, and I couldn't wait for his next record to come out. He had to be, really, the greatest.”

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Sports profile

Sport

Cricket

Team

_Retired Cricket

Position

Cricketer

Nationality

United Kingdom

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

George

Family name

Jones

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

Radcliffe

Occupation

association football player

Languages spoken

English language

Sport

association football

Member of team

Radcliffe F.C.

Position played

forward

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