I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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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I would have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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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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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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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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I want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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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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