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 JONESCountry 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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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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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 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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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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 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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