You can’t put this possum in a cage
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.
More George Jones Quotes
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Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.
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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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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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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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After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, ‘Lord, please give me a hit.’ I want one so bad.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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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 have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.
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If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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