You can’t put this possum in a cage
GEORGE JONESI sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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 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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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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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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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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 might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
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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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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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