It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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Don’t let the ‘business’ change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.
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Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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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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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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