If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
GEORGE JONESThere are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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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,
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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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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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