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.”
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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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
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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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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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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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