Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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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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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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