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.
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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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 you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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Don’t let the ‘business’ change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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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You never see yourself as others do but I’ve always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me.
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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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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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