Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
KEITH RICHARDSIf 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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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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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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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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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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What is life but playing with time?
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