It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
GEORGE JONESIf drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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I just thank God I’m still here and the main thing is to try to get closer and closer to Him as much as I can so that I can treat my friends and my family the way they should be treated.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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