You can’t put this possum in a cage
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.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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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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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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I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.
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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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I love what I’ve done and I just can’t stand to see what they’re doing to it. But I’ve learned to live with it because that’s what they’ve done. They’ve come in with the modern sounds. I call it modern pop. It’s not country anymore.
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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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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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