Top 30 George Jones Quotes (2024 Update)

George Jones Quote: “If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.”

1. “If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.”

— George Jones

George Jones Quote: “You can’t put this possum in a cage.”

2. “You can’t put this possum in a cage.”

— George Jones

George Jones Quote: “God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.”

3. “God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.”

— George Jones

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

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

— George Jones

George Jones Quote: “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.”

5. “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

George Jones 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.”

6. “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

George Jones Quote: “I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.”

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

— George Jones

George Jones 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.”

8. “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

George Jones Quote: “Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.”

9. “Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.”

— George Jones

George Jones Quote: “There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.”

10. “There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.”

— George Jones

George Jones Quote: “When you’re happy you enjoy the music. When you’re sad, you understand the lyrics.”

11. “When you’re happy you enjoy the music. When you’re sad, you understand the lyrics.”

— George Jones

George Jones Quote: “I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.”

12. “I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.”

— George Jones

George Jones Quote: “He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.”

13. “He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.”

— George Jones

George Jones Quote: “The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.”

14. “The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.”

— George Jones

George Jones Quote: “I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.”

15. “I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.”

— George Jones

George Jones Quote: “If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.”

16. “If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.”

— George Jones

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

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

— George Jones

George Jones Quote: “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.”

18. “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

George Jones Quote: “Me and the bottle have always been friends, we’ve had a few old nasty fights but the bottle would always win, so when I go to answer that final curtain call, I can hear these words being whispered by all... Ol’ George stopped drinking today.”

19. “Me and the bottle have always been friends, we’ve had a few old nasty fights but the bottle would always win, so when I go to answer that final curtain call, I can hear these words being whispered by all... Ol’ George stopped drinking today.”

— George Jones

George Jones Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

— George Jones

George Jones Quote: “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.”

21. “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

George Jones Quote: “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.”

22. “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

George Jones Quote: “Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it. 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.”

23. “Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it. 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.”

— George Jones

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

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

— George Jones

George Jones Quote: “I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight, 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.”

25. “I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight, 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.”

— George Jones

George Jones Quote: “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.”

26. “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.”

— George Jones

George Jones Quote: “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.”

27. “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

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

28. “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

George Jones 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.”

29. “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

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

30. “There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.”

— George Jones

George Jones Quote: “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.”

31. “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

George Jones Quote: “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.”

32. “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

George Jones Quote: “Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.”

33. “Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.”

— George Jones

George Jones Quote: “All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!”

34. “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

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