I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
GEORGE JONESThere are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
More George Jones Quotes
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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Some 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.
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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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.
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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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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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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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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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