You can’t put this possum in a cage
GEORGE JONESI took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
More George Jones Quotes
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A 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.
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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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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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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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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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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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I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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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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A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.
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It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory.
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