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.
GEORGE JONESIt might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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Don’t let the ‘business’ change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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It didn’t make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he’d say, “Get up and sing me some songs.”
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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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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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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Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.
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