A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
GEORGE JONESWalk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.
More George Jones Quotes
-
-
Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
GEORGE JONES -
It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
GEORGE JONES -
Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
GEORGE JONES -
After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, ‘Lord, please give me a hit.’ I want one so bad.
GEORGE JONES -
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.
GEORGE JONES -
Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
GEORGE JONES -
There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
GEORGE JONES -
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.
GEORGE JONES -
Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
GEORGE JONES -
I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
GEORGE JONES -
You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
GEORGE JONES -
I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
GEORGE JONES -
If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
GEORGE JONES -
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.”
GEORGE JONES -
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.
GEORGE JONES