I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
GEORGE JONESI 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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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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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 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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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