There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
GEORGE JONESCountry music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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 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 can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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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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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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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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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I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.
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