I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
GEORGE JONESI 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.
More George Jones Quotes
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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 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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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get ’em the right kind of hat, and if anything’s wrong with their nose, if it’s a little crooked, it’s got to be straightened up.
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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’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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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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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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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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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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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