I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
GEORGE JONESI took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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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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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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