If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
GEORGE JONESNo matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
More George Jones Quotes
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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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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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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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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I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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Some of them don’t have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don’t sell two million copies, you’re gone, you’re out of here.
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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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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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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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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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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