George Jones Quotes

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• There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

  George Jones

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  George Jones (2014). “I Lived to Tell It All”, p.143, Dell

  114 Copy quote

• The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain't.

  George Jones

  Different, Saint, Forgiven

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• I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.

  George Jones

  Cocaine, Foolishness

  George Jones (2014). “I Lived to Tell It All”, p.327, Dell

  87 Copy quote

• 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.

  George Jones

  Country, Real, Simple

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• I've had a lot of practice and wrong's what I do best.

  George Jones

  Practice, Low Self Esteem

  Song: Wrong's What I Do Best

  64 Copy quote

• Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.

  George Jones

  Romantic, Dream, Love You

  92 Copy quote

• 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.

  George Jones

  Drinking, Character, Lazy

  George Jones (2014). “I Lived to Tell It All”, p.204, Dell

  79 Copy quote

• You can't put this possum in a cage

  George Jones

  Cages, Possums

  Song: I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair, 1992

  43 Copy quote

• You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.

  George Jones

  Waiting, World, Always Waiting

  Twitter post from Apr 12, 2012

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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.

  George Jones

  Country, People, Sound

  Source: www.cbn.com

  69 Copy quote

• Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.

  George Jones

  Lonely, Loneliness, Choices

  George Jones (2014). “I Lived to Tell It All”, p.296, Dell

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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.

  George Jones

  Trying, Thank God, Way

  Source: www.cbn.com

  59 Copy quote

• If drinking don't kill me, her memory will.

  George Jones

  Memories, Drinking, Sadness

  Song: If drinkin' don't kill me

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• There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.

  George Jones

  Song, World, Lost

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour. It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.

  George Jones

  Taken, Keys, Half

  George Jones (2014). “I Lived to Tell It All”, p.140, Dell

  44 Copy quote

• Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best.

  George Jones

  Philosophy, People, Way

  Song: Wrong's What I Do Best

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• Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you. 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.

  George Jones

  Real, Love Is, Voice

  37 Copy quote

• 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.

  George Jones

  Country, Heart, People

  38 Copy quote

• I'd rather sing a sad song than eat.

  George Jones

  Song, Sad Song

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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.

  George Jones

  Country, Men, Stuff

  Source: www.cbn.com

  35 Copy quote

• If you're gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.

  George Jones

  Baby, Crazy, Drink

  Song: Drive Me to Drink, Album: Walls Can Fall, 1992

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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.

  George Jones

  Country, Artist, Support

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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.

  George Jones

  Home, Social Taboos, Drunk

  Song: If drinkin' don't kill me, Album: I Am What I Am

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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.

  George Jones

  Artist, Jeans, Noses

  Source: www.cbn.com

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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!

  George Jones

  Song, Would Be, Versions

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