You can’t put this possum in a cage
GEORGE JONESYou can’t put this possum in a cage
GEORGE JONESMaybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
GEORGE JONESIt 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.”
GEORGE JONESI can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
GEORGE JONESA key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
GEORGE JONESAll Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
GEORGE JONESIt goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
GEORGE JONESEverybody 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,
GEORGE JONESThere, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
GEORGE JONESToday they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
GEORGE JONESIf people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
GEORGE JONESLoneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
GEORGE JONESAnybody who loves country music loves gospel.
GEORGE JONESIt might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
GEORGE JONESA 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 JONESI 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