I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
GEORGE JONESIf you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
More George Jones Quotes
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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 are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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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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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
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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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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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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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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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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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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 nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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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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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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 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.”
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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