There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
GEORGE JONESThere’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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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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Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow.
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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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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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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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