There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
GEORGE JONESEverybody 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,
More George Jones Quotes
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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You never see yourself as others do but I’ve always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me.
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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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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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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If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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