I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
GEORGE JONESThere’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
More George Jones Quotes
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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.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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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.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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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.”
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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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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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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it’s not the right way but wrong’s what I do best.
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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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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
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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.
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