You can’t put this possum in a cage
GEORGE JONESYou can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
More George Jones Quotes
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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!
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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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.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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.
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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,
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
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