If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
GEORGE JONESYou can’t put this possum in a cage
More George Jones Quotes
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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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 nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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You never see yourself as others do but I’ve always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me.
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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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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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Don’t let the ‘business’ change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.
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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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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
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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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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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You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
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Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.
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