A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
GEORGE JONESWe older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
More George Jones Quotes
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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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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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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 took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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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