I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
GEORGE JONESThere’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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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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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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 can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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