Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
GEORGE JONESThere, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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