If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
GEORGE JONESI took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
More George Jones Quotes
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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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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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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Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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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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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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