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.
GEORGE JONESBefore then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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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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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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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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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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