There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
GEORGE JONESThe only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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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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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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