I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
GEORGE JONESIt goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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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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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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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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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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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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