Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
GEORGE JONESBe real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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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.”
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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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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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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 sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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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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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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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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