It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
GEORGE JONESDifferent people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
More George Jones Quotes
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.
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Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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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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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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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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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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We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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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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