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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
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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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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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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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I want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.
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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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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I 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.
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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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