There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
GEORGE JONESThere, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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 you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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 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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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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