George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool.

True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

You don't find a style. A style finds you

There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe.

Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

safety and love are both illusions!

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.

You are pure potential.

As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.

If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.

Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.