Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
GEORGE JONESWe didn’t want to sing but we sang.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.
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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’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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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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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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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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