I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
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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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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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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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
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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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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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