I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
GEORGE JONESMaybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.
More George Jones Quotes
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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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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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 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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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.
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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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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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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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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.
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