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.
GEORGE JONESWe didn’t want to sing but we sang.
More George Jones Quotes
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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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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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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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I’m an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I’ve got out there,
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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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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