If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
GEORGE JONESA key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
More George Jones Quotes
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
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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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Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow.
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Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get ’em the right kind of hat, and if anything’s wrong with their nose, if it’s a little crooked, it’s got to be straightened up.
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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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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
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