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.
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 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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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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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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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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’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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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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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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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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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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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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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