He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
GEORGE JONESIt 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.”
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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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 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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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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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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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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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 just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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