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.
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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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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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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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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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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