George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
KEITH RICHARDSRock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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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 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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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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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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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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