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 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
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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 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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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.
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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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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I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
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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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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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