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 JONESI’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
More George Jones Quotes
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Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I’m an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I’ve got out there,
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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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