God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
GEORGE JONESMaybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
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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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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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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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Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
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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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