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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.

Keith Richards

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
KEITH RICHARDS

Ideas Music Mysterious Work Yourself
George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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National Treasure Unique
But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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Desperate Feeling Money People Record Touch Yourself
When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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Influence Listening Myself Thinking Work
Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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Beautiful Complication Myself Woman
And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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Blue Learning Monastery Realize Sing Thinking
If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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Missing Sleep Song Stay Yourself
I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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Encouragement Give Up Instrument People Play Try Writing
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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Electric Guitar Play Quiet Start
I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Life Oneself Quiet
Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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Death Fame Kill Talent
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Blue Deliver Kind Known Music Yourself
I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
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Ideas Job Myself Nurture Understand Word
You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Finding Style Yourself
To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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Big Fear Game Special Yourself
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Guitar Music Point Popular Yourself

If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.

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