I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
GEORGE JONESI sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
More George Jones Quotes
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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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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 drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.
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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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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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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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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 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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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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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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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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