I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
GEORGE JONESIt goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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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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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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 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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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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