If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
GEORGE JONESThe only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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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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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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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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You never see yourself as others do but I’ve always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me.
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