You can’t put this possum in a cage
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.
More George Jones Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.
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I’ve had a lot of practice and wrong’s what I do best.
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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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Everybody 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,
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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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Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
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I want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.
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I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
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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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