A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
GEORGE JONESThere’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
More George Jones Quotes
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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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 are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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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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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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You never see yourself as others do but I’ve always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me.
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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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