George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
KEITH RICHARDSI never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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