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.”
GEORGE JONESIt might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
More George Jones Quotes
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I would have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.
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You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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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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