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 JONESThere, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
More George Jones Quotes
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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 sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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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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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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I love what I’ve done and I just can’t stand to see what they’re doing to it. But I’ve learned to live with it because that’s what they’ve done. They’ve come in with the modern sounds. I call it modern pop. It’s not country anymore.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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