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 JONESAfter the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, ‘Lord, please give me a hit.’ I want one so bad.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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I love what I’ve done and I just can’t stand to see what they’re doing to it. But I’ve learned to live with it because that’s what they’ve done. They’ve come in with the modern sounds. I call it modern pop. It’s not country anymore.
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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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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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