The Best George Jones quotes

If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink. — George Jones

Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice. — George Jones

He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door. — George Jones

I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best. — George Jones

If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years. — George Jones

Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best. — George Jones

Barely two weeks into filming Star Wars, and George Lucas was ready to kill Sir Alec Guinness. ‘It — Brian Jay Jones

I was born in Saratoga, Texas, a little town there in the Big Thicket about 60 miles north of Beaumont. Needless to say, we were very, very poor, but we always managed to have enough to keep our bellies full. — George Jones

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. — George Jones

God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis. — George Jones

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

I tried to be a house painter, but I couldn’t stand all that paint all over me. — George Jones

I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio. — George Jones

Roy Acuff was a big hero for me, and I was so sad when he passed. It’s hard as you get older to lose your friends and family. — George Jones

Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline. — George Jones

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. — George Jones

I’d rather sing a sad song than eat. — George Jones

We’d just go to church and sing. My dad would get me and my sister Doris, and we would sing together. I sung the harmony, and my sister Doris took the lead. — George Jones

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t even there.–George Santanaya As — Gerald Everett Jones

The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t. — George Jones

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

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

There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody. — George Jones

My mama loved me more than anybody ever did. — George Jones

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. — George Jones

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

Surely, comrades, you don’t want Jones back? — George Orwell

There were a lot of songs during my MCA years that I thought should have been singles but were not. You can’t worry about what wasn’t–I was very lucky to have as many hits as I had. — George Jones