If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
GEORGE JONESI just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
More George Jones Quotes
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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow.
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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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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.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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