George Jones Quotes

You get to an age when you lose people close to you.

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they were taken so soon. I loved and miss Johnny Cash. I miss my old buddy Johnny Paycheck, who happens to be buried in an area of the cemetery that I bought for my family.

I was 33 when my father passed away.

When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.

Losing my homies in a hurry, they're relocating to the cemetery.

Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you're not just on the sideline and watching them go by. You know, you're going to the same place they are.

One of my favorites is one called 'Rory's Radio' that I wrote about my brother Jeff's best friend growing up - his name was Rory Dunigan. I dedicated my first record to my brother, who got killed in a car accident in 1999, and I really didn't have any songs on the first album about him, nothing on a personal note.

I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.

Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.

My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those people can be threatened or intruded upon now. But I am enormously protective of the people who are currently in my life, my existing friends and family. That is where the curtain is drawn.

Learning of my father's passing at age 55 not only shattered the world, far from home, that had become my reality, but catapulted my childhood and relationship with family - which had felt like another lifetime - into the present.

My sister died in Brooklyn.

When I hear or see his name, I see the Glen I've always known. There will never, ever be another Glen Campbell.