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 JONESIt might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
GEORGE JONESI just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
GEORGE JONESI 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 hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.
GEORGE JONESI 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.
GEORGE JONESA 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.
GEORGE JONESI sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
GEORGE JONESIt goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
GEORGE JONESDifferent people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
GEORGE JONESI took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
GEORGE JONESI can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
GEORGE JONESAll Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
GEORGE JONESI’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
GEORGE JONESSome of them don’t have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don’t sell two million copies, you’re gone, you’re out of here.
GEORGE JONESHe stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
GEORGE JONESIt 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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