I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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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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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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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