I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
GEORGE JONESEven they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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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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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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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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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