The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
GEORGE JONESYou can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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 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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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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