It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
GEORGE JONESA key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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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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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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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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