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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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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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." We didn't want to sing but we sang.
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I'd rather sing a sad song than eat.
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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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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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If drinking don't kill me, her memory will.
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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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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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There's bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much. It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory. 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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. 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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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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You can't put this possum in a cage
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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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it. 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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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, I can't be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.
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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've always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music, 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. Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I'm competing with. We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain't.
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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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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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Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.
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If you're gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
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Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow. Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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