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.
GEORGE JONESIf you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
More George Jones Quotes
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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 want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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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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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get ’em the right kind of hat, and if anything’s wrong with their nose, if it’s a little crooked, it’s got to be straightened up.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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