Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American singer Johnny Paycheck.
Last updated on November 18, 2024.
Johnny Paycheck was an American country music singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and Grand Ole Opry member notable for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It". He achieved his greatest success in the 1970s as a force in country music's "outlaw movement" popularized by artists Hank Williams Jr., Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, and Merle Haggard. In 1980, Paycheck appeared on the PBS music program Austin City Limits. But during that decade, his music career slowed due to drug, alcohol and legal problems. He served a prison sentence in the early 1990s and his declining health effectively ended his career in early 2000.
To me, an outlaw is a man that did things his own way, whether you liked him or not. I did things my own way.
Take this job and shove it, I ain't working here no more.
Always go hard and fast enough so that when you hit the ditch you can pull out the other side.
I'm a man who believes that right is right and wrong is wrong. Treat me right, and I will give you my all. Treat me wrong, and I will give you nothing. They don't like me for that, but that's the way I am.