After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, ‘Lord, please give me a hit.’ I want one so bad.
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!
More George Jones Quotes
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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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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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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You never see yourself as others do but I’ve always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me.
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We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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