God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
GEORGE JONESWe didn’t want to sing but we sang.
More George Jones Quotes
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I’m an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I’ve got out there,
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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