I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
GEORGE JONESIf drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
More George Jones Quotes
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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 sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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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.
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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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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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 took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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