You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
GEORGE JONESI’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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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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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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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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I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
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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 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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