There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
GEORGE JONESI just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
More George Jones Quotes
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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Don’t let the ‘business’ change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.
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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’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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I love what I’ve done and I just can’t stand to see what they’re doing to it. But I’ve learned to live with it because that’s what they’ve done. They’ve come in with the modern sounds. I call it modern pop. It’s not country anymore.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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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 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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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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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