The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
GEORGE JONESI lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
More George Jones Quotes
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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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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Don’t let the ‘business’ change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.
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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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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You never see yourself as others do but I’ve always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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