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.
GEORGE JONESGod bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I’m an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I’ve got out there,
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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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I 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.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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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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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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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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