God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
GEORGE JONESIt 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.”
More George Jones Quotes
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After 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.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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